James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford

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James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford and the 6th Earl of Balcarres (24 April 1783 – 15 December 1869) was a Scottish peer, politician and military officer.

Biography

James Lindsay was born on 24 April 1783 at Balcarres House in Fife, the son of Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres and inherited the title of 7th Earl of Balcarres on his father's death in 1825. In 1826 he was created Baron of Wigan in the Peerage of Great Britain. In 1843 he claimed the abeyant title of Earl of Crawford and in 1848 the House of Lords allowed the claim and conferred on him the title of 24th Earl of Crawford, and by extension, the title of 23rd Earl of Crawford on his dead father. He was subsequently commissioned into the British Army and attained the rank of major in the 20th Light Dragoons until he left in 1804. He was returned as Tory MP for Wigan from 1820 to 1825.^[1]

After the

On 21 November 1811 at Muncaster in Cumberland (now Cumbria), Crawford married the Hon Maria Margaret Frances Pennington, daughter of John Pennington, 1st Baron Muncaster. They had four sons:

• Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (16 October 1812 - 13 December 1880)
• Lt Gen Hon Sir James Lindsay (25 August 1815 - 13 August 1874)
• Colonel Hon Charles Hugh Lindsay (11 November 1816 - 25 March 1889)
• Hon Colin Lindsay (6 December 1819 - 28 January 1892)

Eldest son Alexander's genealogical research had enabled his father to claim the title of Earl of Crawford which had fallen into abeyance.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [
  better source needed
  ]
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Balcarres Family

Further reading

• Lindsay, Lord
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  ).
• Barker, Nicolas (1978), Bibliotheca Lindesiana: The Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (2nd corrected ed.), London: For Presentation to the
  OCLC 931340384
  .

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Crawford