Andrew Leslie (shipbuilder)
- Andrew Leslie (shipbuilder)
Andrew Leslie (born 1818) was a Scottish shipbuilder.
Born in 1818 in Garth, Dunrossness[cite web |url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-SHETLAND/2004-10/1096997451 |title=Andrew Leslie, Hebburn |publisher=Rootsweb |date=2004-10-05 |accessdate=2008-05-05] , Shetland to Christian Allison and Robert Leslie, Leslie later moved to Aberdeen. In 1853 Leslie relocated to Hebburn in North-East England where he founded the shipbuilding company A. Leslie and Company [cite web |url=http://www.town-info.co.uk/England/County_Durham/Hebburn/Info.html |title=Local Information for Hebburn |publisher= Town Info |accessdate=2008-05-05] . 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 [cite web |url=http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin/1_edinburgh_history_-_recollections_hawthorn_shipbuilders_leith.htm |title=Hawthorn Shipbuilders |publisher=EdinPhoto |accessdate=2008-05-05] .]In Hebburn Leslie largely funded St. Andrew's Church which opened in 1873 and built other buildings including homes for his workers, schools for their children[. He was married to Margret Leslie][. Leslie also lived at Coxlodge Hall in Gosforth [Cite web |url=http://www.northumbrian-coast.co.uk/newcastle.htm |title=Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=northumbrian-coast.co.uk |accessdate=2008-05-05] ] References
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