George Arbuthnot-Leslie

George Arbuthnot, third of Elderslie, eldest son of George Arbuthnot and Maria Thomas, was born at Madras,12th March, 1847. He was educated at Brighton College, was in the school eleven, and while there (at the age of 16) was asked to play for the Gentlemen Players of Sussex. He was Ensign in the 53rd Shropshire Foot and later Lieutenant in the Scots Greys. He married (4th August, 1875) Mary Rose, eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Leslie, 11th Laird of Warthill, who had represented the County of Aberdeen in the Conservative interest in Parliament, and was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the Sovereign's Body-Guard in Scotland. On the death of this William Leslie in 1880, George Arbuthnot assumed the surname of Leslie in addition to his own, his wife having succeeded to the lands of Warthill as heiress of entail. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of Aberdeen, and in 1895 succeeded his father in the estate of Elderslie, Surrey, which he sold to his younger brother, James, thus keeping it in the family. He died at Warthill 1st November, 1896, and was buried at Rayne, Aberdeenshire, the coffin being borne all the way to Rayne by relays of tenantry, who asked to be allowed to show this mark of respect for their late Laird.

From Memories of the Arbuthnots of Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire, pub.1920