LINDO, Mark Prager. b. London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about 1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens, Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken van den Ouden Heer Smits i.e. M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage 1877–9. d. at the Hague 9 March 1877.
LINDSAY, Sir Alexander (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837). b. 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795, regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death; studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872. Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery, i 298 etc. (1877).
LINDSAY, Charles Hugh (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869). b. Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot 5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846, captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42 and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St. George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885 to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Lyons 25 March 1889.
LINDSAY, Colin (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage with Bothwell 1888. d. 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 28 Jany. 1892.
LINDSAY, Hugh Hamilton (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P. Forfar burghs 1820–30). b. 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May 1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir J. Brooke 1853. d. 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29 May 1881.
LINDSAY, James (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836). b. 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830; served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May 1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835. d. Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.
LINDSAY, Sir James (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). b. Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861; major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867; inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April 1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870; K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death; L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested Wigan 28 March 1857. d. Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug. 1874.
LINDSAY, James Bowman. b. Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799; a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee 15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of forming an electric communication between Great Britain and other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers; author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861; occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50 languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly completed at his death, but never published. d. 11 South Union st. Dundee 29 June 1862. bur. Western cemet. Dundee 2 July, date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 212–19.
LINDSAY, John. b. Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts 1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage of the Parthians 1852. d. Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec. 1870. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 307 (1872).
LINDSAY, William. b. Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30; ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge 1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec. 1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage. Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols. 1867. d. 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June 1866. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 108–12; W. Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church (1873) 298.