Retirement and Death
In 1879 he retired to Milson's Point, Sydney, where he died on 12 August 1881 following a short illness. He was buried in plot 799 at St Thomas’ Anglican Church Cemetery in West Street Crows Nest Sydney. Leslie was survived by his wife, Catherine and four grandchildren.
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