1. Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Sir Shane Leslie, was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and writer.
16 Facts About Shane Leslie
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Shane Leslie was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill.
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In 1908, Leslie became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule.
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Shane Leslie was born in Glaslough, County Monaghan, into a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family.
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Shane Leslie's father was Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, and his mother, Leonie Jerome, was the sister of Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie.
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Shane Leslie was educated at Ludgrove School, then Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
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Shane Leslie adopted an anglicised Irish variant of his name.
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Shane Leslie became a supporter of the ideals of Irish nationalism, although not physical force republicanism.
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Shane Leslie wrote extensively, in a wide range of styles, in verse, prose, and polemic, over several decades.
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Shane Leslie wrote Mark Sykes: His Life and Letters, a biography of the English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic advisor.
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Shane Leslie advised budding novelist Scott Fitzgerald on the title of his 1st novel, they shared correspondence with the future Mnsg William A Hemmick who was Fitzgerald's teacher at the now shut Newman School.
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Shane Leslie transferred St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, Eugene O'Callaghan.
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Shane Leslie spent the remainder of his life between Glaslough and London.
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Shane Leslie was the elder son of Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, and Leonie Blanche Jerome.
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Shane Leslie married, firstly, Marjorie Ide, daughter of General Henry Clay Ide, on 11 June 1912 and had two sons and one daughter:.
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Shane Leslie died at 15b Palmeira Court, Hove, Sussex on 14 April 1971, aged 85 and a requiem mass was held for him in Westminster Cathedral on 12 October 1971.