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Colonel The HonourableCharles LindsayCB
Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1882.

Member of Parliament for Abingdon
In office 1865–1874
Preceded by	John Thomas Norris
Succeeded by	John Creemer Clarke

Personal details
Born	Charles Hugh Lindsay (1816-11-11)11 November 1816
Died	25 March 1889(1889-03-25) (aged 72)
Spouse	Emilia Anne Browne (m. 1851)
Children	Henry Lindsay Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
Parent(s)	James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford (father) Maria Pennington (mother)
Relatives	Montague Browne (father-in-law)

Charles Hugh Lindsay CB (11 November 1816 – 25 March 1889) was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician.

Background

Charles Lindsay by H. Hering

Lindsay was born at Muncaster Castle, the third son of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, and the Hon. Maria, daughter of John Pennington, 1st Baron Muncaster. Sir James Lindsay was his elder brother.

Public life

Lindsay sat as Member of Parliament for Abingdon between 1865 and 1874. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and Colonel in the St George's Rifle Regiment and served as a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria.

Family

Lindsay married Emilia Anne, daughter of the Very Reverend the Hon. Henry Montague Browne, Dean of Lismore, in 1851. His daughter Violet Lindsay was an artist. She married Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and was the mother of Lady Diana Cooper. Emilia Anne died in February 1873. Lindsay survived her by 16 years and died in March 1889, aged 72.

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Lindsay

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byJohn Thomas Norris	Member of Parliament for Abingdon 1865–1874	Succeeded byJohn Creemer Clarke

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Lindsay family tree

James Lindsay
(1691–1768)

Anne Dalrymple
(1727–1820)

Alexander Lindsay
(1752–1825)

Elizabeth Dalrymple
(1759–1816)

Elizabeth Scot Lindsay
(1763–1858)

Philip Yorke
(1757–1834)

Charles Dalrymple
Lindsay
(1760–1846)

Catherine Eliza Coussmaker
(1760–1852)

Robert Lindsay
(1754–1836)

Elizabeth Dick
(1764–1835)

Maria Margaret
Frances Pennington
(1783–1850)

James Lindsay
(1783–1869)

Philip Yorke
(1784–1808)

Mary Catherine Gore
(1803–1885)

George Hayward Lindsay
(1799–1886)

James Lindsay
(1793–1855)

Anne Trotter
(1803–1894)

Alexander William
Crawford Lindsay
(1812–1880)

Margaret Lindsay
(1824–1909)

James Alexander Lindsay
(1815–1874)

Charles Hugh Lindsay
(1816–1889)

Emilia Anne Browne
(1827–1873)

Henry Gore Lindsay
(1830–1914)

Ellen Sarah Morgan
(1837–1912)

Robert Stayner Holford
(1808–1892)

Mary Ann Lindsay
(1829–1901)

Coutts Lindsay
(1824–1913)

James Ludovic Lindsay
(1847–1913)

Henry John
Brinsley Manners
(1852–1925)

Marion Margaret
Violet Lindsay
(1856–1937)

Henry Edith
Arthur Lindsay
(1866–1939)

Norah Mary
Madeline Bourke
(1873–1948)

George Lindsay Holford
(1860–1926)

Evelyn Holford
(1856–1943)

Robert Henry Benson
(1850–1929)

David Alexander Edward Lindsay
(1871–1940)

Ronald Charles Lindsay
(1877–1945)

Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt
(1885–1954)

Henry Edzell
Morgan Lindsay
(1857–1935)

Lionel Arthur Lindsay
(1861–1945)

Walter Charles Lindsay
(1866–1929)

George Mackintosh
Lindsay
(1880–1956)

Family tree of the Lindsay family

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