Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes
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representative peer, was the son of Martin Leslie Leslie (fka Martin Leslie Haworth) and Georgina Frances Study.
He married Lucy Noël Martha Dyer-Edwardes
Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes
Lucy Noël Martha Leslie, Countess of Rothes was the wife of the 19th Earl of Rothes, whom she married on 19 April 1900.-Biography:...
, daughter of Thomas Dyer-Edwardes, Jr, on 19 April 1900. They had two children:
- Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes, (8 February 1902–1975), married Beryl Violet Dugdale, daughter of Captain James Lionel Dugdale and Maud Violet Woodroffe, on 17 July 1926 and had issue.
- John Wayland Leslie (b. 1909–1991)
Rothes was commissioned into a Militia
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battalion of the Devonshire Regiment in 1895. He was promoted Lieutenant
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in 1897 and resigned his commission in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed Captain
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in the Fife Royal Garrison Artillery
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, another Militia regiment. He resigned his commission in 1909. In 1911 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Highland Cyclist Battalion, which was badged to the Black Watch
Black Watch
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.
During the First World War he fought gallantly, and Leslie House, the ancestral head seat of his family, became a hospital for the injured. His wife worked ceaselessly during the wartime, both at Leslie House and elsewhere, acting as nurse. Rothes was promoted Colonel
Colonel
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in 1918. He sustained injuries during the war from which he never fully recovered. He sold the House in 1919.
In 1927 he died, leaving behind the earldom to his eldest son and provisions for the former, his wife and younger son.