Name Malcolm 20th | ||
Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes (1902 – 1975) was a Scottish nobleman, and the head of Clan Leslie. He was the Earl of Rothes from 1927-1975 following the death of his father Norman Leslie, he was succeeded by his son Ian Leslie who was the earl until his death in 2005.
On 17 July 1926, he married Beryl Dugdale, daughter of Lionel Dugdale of Crathorne, a former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and sister of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne.
They had three children:
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.