Rowland Leigh(1902-1963)

Rowland Leigh, called Rowley by his family, was Rowland Henry Gordon Leigh. His mother, Mabel Gordon of Savannah, married Hon. Rowland Charles Frederick Leigh, son of William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh and Lady Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, on 31 October 1898. Rowland had one sister, Margaret Ethel Leigh Graves. She was an author who used the pen name Jane Gordon. The Gordons of Savannah were in the cotton business. Rowland's grandparents were Eleanor Kinzie Gordon of Chicago and William Washington Gordon Jr. Willie Gordon served in the Confederate Army and the Spanish-American War. In the 1930s, when Katherine Hepburn was visiting the South (she was being considered to play Scarlett in Gone with the Wind), she came for lunch at the house of the Gordon family at 10 E. Oglethorpe Avenue. Rowley had sent her to meet his uncle's family. A portrait of Rowland's mother, Mabel McLane Gordon Leigh, is in the New York Historical Society.