Mary Dorothy Rose Leys (8 October 1890[1] – 6 September 1967) was a British historian and academic, who was involved in the work of the Catholic Social Guild and the
Catholic Record Society.[2]
Leys was born in
Tylers Green,
Buckinghamshire.[3] Her obituary in The Times states that she was educated at home because her family were too poor to afford school fees.[4] Her Scottish father, John Kirkwood Leys, was a novelist and died in 1909.[5]