!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 242.
John Leslie, A.R.S.M., ...was born on 23rd May 1903, was educated at
Haileybury College and the Nautical College, Pangourne, Berks. After a
short spell in the Merchant Service, he entered the Royal School of
Mines, South Kensington, of which he became an Associate. Here he was
President of the Students'' Union and Captain of Rugby football, boxing
and athletics. Thereafter he became a field officer in various oil
companies in the Balkans, Trinidad, Portugal, Ecuador, India and Turkey.
On retirement, he became ''mine host'' at the Red Lion Hotel, Lindfield,
Sussex, where he died on 3rd May 1969 and was cremated at Worth
Crematorium, Sussex.
He married on the 5th April 1933 Sylvia, only daughter of the later
Herbert Sanderson Watson and his wife Olive Barbar Thompson, with
issue.