Leonard Alsager Elgood

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Leonard Alsager Elgood FRSE OBE MC DL (13 December 1892 – 31 January 1987) was a British company director who served with distinction in the First World War.

Life

He was born in Essex on 13 December 1892, the son of William Alsager Elgood JP, a banker in Dundee. The family lived at Elmbank on Station Road in Newport-on-Tay.{{cite web |url=http://www.twentytwoflassroad.co.uk/Newport/directory_form_handler.php?source=63&s=300&p=27 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415190328/http://www.twentytwoflassroad.co.uk/Newport/directory_form_handler.php?source=63&s=300&p=27 |archive-date=15 April 2016 |df=dmy-all }}

He was educated at the High School of Dundee. He then studied at St Andrews University but it is not clear if he graduated. His overall training was as a chartered accountant.

In the First World War he served in the Black Watch and was promoted to Captain. He was three times Mentioned in Dispatches and also won the Military Cross. Records indicate that he joined up within the first days of the war, being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 4 September 1914.The London Gazette: 22 September 1914 His Military Cross was won for wire-clearing work under heavy fire on the night of 9 May 1915 near Rouges Bancs.The London Gazette: 24 July 1915

In June 1919 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).{{cite web |url=http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Roll_of_Honour_and_Roll_of_Service_1914-1919_1000487981/67 |title=p.46-7. Roll of Honour and Roll of Service, 1914-1919 |website=www.forgottenbooks.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418192218/http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Roll_of_Honour_and_Roll_of_Service_1914-1919_1000487981/67 |archive-date=2016-04-18}}

He lived at 16 Cumlodden Avenue in the Ravelston Dykes area of Edinburgh.

In 1948 he was created Deputy Lieutenant of the City and County of Edinburgh.The Edinburgh Gazette: 18 May 1948

In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Foster Neville Woodward, Sir Edmund Peder Hudson, William A P Black and Philip Jackson.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}

He died on 31 January 1987.