Alexander Leslie (engineer)

Alexander Leslie FRSE PRSSA (16 September 1844 – 7 December 1893) was a Scottish civil engineer.

He was born in Dundee on 16 September 1844 the son of the civil engineer James Leslie and his wife Jane Hunter (1804-1887).

He then briefly gained extra experience as a land surveyor with a Mr Macbey of Elgin before joining the firm of Morkle & Prodham working on the Blaydon and Conside Railway.

In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposers being Thomas Stevenson and Peter Guthrie Tait.

Robert had earlier been a school friend and probably through this connection met his sister, Charlotte Leslie (1846–1935).

Spillway, Edgelaw Reservoir
Gladhouse Reservoir
Alnwickhill Waterworks
The grave of Alexander Leslie and his parents, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh