page_title: Alexander Forbes-Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie
section_title: Business career
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Forbes-Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie / Business career
caption_attribution_description: English: Fyvie Castle in the late afternoon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
context_page_description: Alexander John Forbes-Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie JP, DL, was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and US steel magnate.
context_section_description: Forbes-Leith married the daughter of a director of an Illinois steel mill in 1871 (see below). He worked his way up in to become president of the Joliet Iron and Steel Company, which later merged into Illinois Steel and eventually the United States Steel Corporation, of which Leith became a director. He was also a partner in a merchant bank.
  In 1889, Forbes-Leith used the fortune he had made in the steel industry to acquire Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire for £175,000 and invested large sums in its restoration. He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. In 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Leith of Fyvie, of Fyvie in the County of Aberdeen.
caption: Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire.
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