William Murray Leslie (1859–1951), M.B. (Edin.), C.M., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), was a Scottish Physician and Barrister-at-Law. He was born in Wester Suddie Farm (now Roskill), Black Isle, Ross-shire and was one of six sons, four of whom entered the medical profession, and one daughter, to Alexander Leslie (1822–1881), J.P. of Suddie, Munlochy, Ross-shire and Isabella Christina Murray (1829–1931), both of whom were of Aberdeenshire stock. Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1883, he sought his fortune in England and was, by 1882, a Medical Surgeon’s Assistant in Bolton, Lancashire. He was married to his first wife, Jane who was born in Singapore but who was resident in Edinburgh by the time they met. By 1892, he was a member of The Caledonian Medical Society and was registered at 74 Cadogan Place in London, S.W. He may have spent time in America between 1900 and 1905. A claim to fame is that he became the first chairman of Millwall F.C. He later married Margaret Holland in 1910 with issue. A younger brother Dr Robert Murray Leslie predeceased him in 1921, aged fifty-five. At the advanced age of ninety-two Leslie died, in 1951, at Grayswood House, Haslemere, Surrey.
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