Rowland Leigh (born Roland Henry Gordon Leigh; 16 May 1902 – 8 October 1963) was an aristocratic Anglo-American lyricist, screenwriter and librettist who worked with many famous actors and musicians during his career on Broadway and in Hollywood.
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Family
His mother, Mable, was the youngest daughter of General William Washington Gordon and Nellie Kinzie Gordon, and he was in remainder to the peerage title of Baron Leigh, through his father the Hon Rowland Leigh (1859–1943).
Leigh married 17 November 1937 Catherine de Bernard de La Fosse, daughter of Vicomte Pierre de Bernard de La Fosse, of Château de Beaumont, Loir-et-Cher, France, but they had no children and divorced in 1943.