Background
He was the son of Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes and his wife Noël Dyer-Edwardes, a Titanic survivor.
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He was brought up at Leslie House until the outbreak of the first World War, when the family moved to London. They had three children:
Ian, 21st Earl of Rothes, and
Eve, wife of Sir Gerard William Mackworth-Young (1926-1984), daughter 2011
Jean. He worked as Chairman of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society.
He succeeded as the 20th Earl of Rothes on the death of his father in 1927.
He served as a Representative Peer for Scotland until this system was abolished. The Earl died on 7 May 1975.
The Rothes Chair in Preventive Ophthalmology was established at London University in his memory in 1977.
