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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, 19th Earl of Rothes. His mother was Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes, who not only survived the Titanic disaster, but took the tiller of a lifeboat and helped row survivors to the RMS Carpathia. His son succeeded him in 1975 as the Earl of Rothes.
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:
- Ian, 21st Earl of Rothes, and
- Eve, wife of Sir Gerard William Mackworth-Young (1926-1984), d. 2011
- Jean.
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.
