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LINDSAY—LINDSEY.
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Swinton, Capt. R.N. Hed. 19 Feb. 1851, in his 64th year, at Teheran in Persia, and was bur. in the churchyard of the Armenians there. Admon. Aug. 1851. His widow (who was a minor in 1822) d. 31 Dec. 1877, at 13 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.

Earldom [S.] X. Barony [S.] XIX. [1851, and] 1878.

10 and 19. Sir John Trotter Bethune, Bart., s. and h., who on his father's death, 19 Feb, 1851, sur, to the Baronetcy, becoming also de jure[1] EARL OF LINDSAY, &c. [S.] He became subsequently, by the decision in his favour of the House of Lords, 5 April 1878, de facto, EARL OF LINDSAY [1633], VISCOUNT GARNOCK [1703], LORD LINDSAY OF THE BYRES [144], LORD PARBROATH [1633], and LORD KILBIRNY AND DRUMRY [1703], in the peerage of Scotland. He was b. 3 Jan. 1827, at Kileonquhar; sometime Lient. 91st Highlanders; REP. PEER [S.] since 10 June 1885. He m., 18 July 1858, Jeanne Eudoxie Marie, da. of Jacques Victor DUVAL, of Bordeaux, in France.

Family Estates.—These, in 1883, consisted of 2,205 acres in Fifeshire, worth £5,548 a year. Principal Residence. Kilconqular House, co. Fife.

LINDSAY AND BALNEIL.

i.e., "LINDSAY AND BALNEIL," Barony [S.] (Lindsay), cr. 1651 with the EARLDOM OF BALCARRES [S.], which see.

LINDSAY OF BALCARRES.

i.e., "LINDSAY OF BALCARRES," BaroDy [S.] (Lindsay), cr. 1633; see under "BALCARRES."


LINDSEY.

Earldom. I. 1626.


1. ROBERT (BERTIE), LORD WILLOUGHBY OF ERESBY, s. and h. of Peregrine, LORD WILLOUGHBY OF ERESBY, by Mary, aunt of the whole blood of Heury, 18th EARL OF OXFORD (who d. s.p. in May 1625 leaving as his coheirs three sisters of the half blood), only da, of John (DE VERE), 16th EARL OF OXFORD, was b. 17 Dec. 1582;[2] ed, at Cambridge; accompanied (his godfather), Robert, Earl of Essex, in the expedition to Cadiz in 1596, serving also in Denmark and Norway as well as in the United Provinces where in 1624 he was Col. of an English Regiment of Foot. K. B., 5 Jan. 1604/5. Having, in 1625, on the death of his cousin, Henry, Earl of Oxford, above named, laid claim to that Earldom and to the other dignities vested in his maternal ancestors, he obtained judgment in his favour so far as concerned their hereditary office of Great Chamberlain.[3] and took his seat, 13 April 1627, above all other Barons in virtue of being possessed of that dignity. On 22 Nov. 1626, he was cr. EARL OF LINDSEY, co. Lincoln, it being recited in the patent that the office of Great Chamberlain was in the earliest times enjoyed by none under the dignity of an Earl; Lord Lieut. of Lincolnshire, 1629; elected K.G., 18 April, and inst. 5 Oct. 1630; Lord High Constable for two special occasions, 1631 and 1634, Admiral (Custos Maris) and Capt. Gen. at Sea, 1635; Governor of Berwick, 1639; a Commissioner of Regency, Aug. to Nov. 1641; Col. of

  1. ↑ (a) See p. 102, note "a."
  2. ↑ (b) Born in 1572, according to Lloyd's "Memoirs," but the inscription on his monument gives his death as "Auno atatis 60, Christi 1612," and his father, who was born at Wesel in Oct. 1555, was probably unmarried as late as 1574. See Lady Georgiana Bertie's "Five generations of a loyal house."
  3. ↑ (c) See vol. i, p. 207, note "d," sub "Aveland,” for an account of the office of Great Chamberlain.
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