NOTE.--His son Wm. Lindley _b._ 1802 was a good violinist and excelled
in orchestral playing, he _d._ at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.
LINDO, ELIAS HIAM. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death;
author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are
added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ.
1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the
earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. _d._
1865.
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.