Andrew Leslie (1818–1894) was a Scottish shipbuilder. [1]
Born in 1818 in Garth, Dunrossness, [2] Shetland to Christian Allison and Robert Leslie, Leslie later moved to Aberdeen. [3] In 1853 Leslie relocated to Hebburn in North-East England where he founded the shipbuilding company A. Leslie and Company. [4] When Andrew Leslie retired in 1886, A. Leslie and Company merged with the locomotive manufacturer R and W Hawthorn to create Hawthorn Leslie and Company. [5]
In Hebburn, Leslie largely funded St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, which opened in 1873, and built other buildings including homes for his workers, schools for their children. [2] He was married to Margaret Leslie. [2] Leslie also lived at Coxlodge Hall in Gosforth [6]
He died on 27 January 1894 aged 75. He is buried in a family plot at Rosebank Cemetery in Edinburgh, [7] against the west wall, near the north-west corner.