Education
Rugby School.
Rugby School.
Leslie played his cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England. Leslie was a hard-hitting batsman with a solid defence, a useful right-arm fast bowler and an athletic cover-point. Cricket captain at Rugby School in his last three years, he was an outstanding public schoolboy cricketer.
His Test career comprised all four matches for Bligh"s team when he scored 106 runs at 15.14 and took four wickets at 11.00.
The first three matches were played against Billy Murdoch"s 1882 touring team and counted for the Ashes. Leslie did not take a wicket in the last two of those Tests.
The urn was not at stake for the fourth match played against a combined Australian side when Leslie took one first innings wicket. He represented Middlesex from 1881 to 1886 and in 48 first-class matches in total scored 1860 runs at 22.96 with his 144 for Bligh"s XI against New South Wales the highest of his four hundreds He took eight wickets at 20.62 and held 18 catches.
Away from cricket he became managing director of William France, Fenwick &.
Company Limited., Fenchurch Street, London, coal merchants and ship owners. His great-grandson is the former Kent and England cricketer Matthew Fleming.
His great-great-grandson is actor Jack Huston.