Robert Lindsay, 9th Lord Lindsay

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Personal details
Born
Robert Lindsay
Died9 July 1616
Spouse
Lady Christian Hamilton
(m. 1610)
Relations Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay (grandfather)
Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes (grandfather)
Anne Crawford-Lindsay (granddaughter)
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford (grandson)
Children John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay
Helen Scott, Lady Ardross
Parent(s) James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay
Lady Eupheme Leslie

Robert Lindsay, 9th Lord Lindsay PC (died 9 July 1616), was a Scottish landowner.

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Early life

He was the second son of James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay and Lady Eupheme Leslie. [1] His elder brother was John Lindsay, 8th Lord Lindsay (who married Hon. Anne Oliphant, granddaughter of Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant). His sisters included Hon. Jane Lindsay (wife of Robert Lundie of Balgonie), Hon. Helen Lindsay (wife of John Cranstoun, 2nd Lord Cranstoun), and Hon. Catherine Lindsay (wife of James Lundie of that Ilk). [2]

His paternal grandparents were Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay and Euphemia Douglas (a daughter of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven, who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, and Lady Margaret Erskine, a mistress of King James V of Scotland who was a daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine). His maternal grandparents were Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes and Grizel Hamilton (a daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart). [3]

Career

Lindsay inherited the Lordship Lindsay of the Byres upon the death of his brother in November 1609 who died without male issue. Following his brother's death, the estate of Byres was sold to the 9th Lord's father-in-law, Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. [4]

Lord Lindsay was the Scottish Ecclesiastical High Commissioner. He was made a Privy Councillor of Scotland in 1610 and 1616. [3]

Personal life

On 26 June 1610, Lindsay married Lady Christian Hamilton, eldest daughter of Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington and Margaret Borthwick (only child of James Borthwick of Newbyres). Before his death in 1616, they were the parents of: [5]

Lord Lindsay died on 9 July 1616 and was succeeded in the Lordship by his only surviving son, John (who was created the 1st Earl of Lindsay in 1633, and inherited the Earldom of Crawford in 1652). [8] [2] After his death, his Lady Christian married, as his second wife, Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd, sometime after 9 December 1617. She died in 1645. [9]

Descendants

Through his daughter Helen, Lady Ardross, he was posthumously a grandfather of Euphemia Scott, who married William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, the Shire Commissioner for Ayr. [9]

Through his son John, he was posthumously a grandfather of Lady Anne Lindsay (wife of John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes), [10] Lady Christian Lindsay (wife of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington), [11] William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford, [8] Hon. Patrick Lindsay (later Crawford of Kilbirnie), [12] Lady Helen Lindsay (wife of Sir Robert Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, of Stevenston), [13] and Lady Elizabeth Lindsay (wife of David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk). [14]

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Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Lord Lindsay of the Byres
16091616
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