William Lindsay (shipowner)

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William Lindsay

FRSE SSC
The grave of William Lindsay FRSE, South Leith Parish Churchyard.jpg
Lindsay's grave in South Leith.
Born(1819-11-24)24 November 1819
Died20 February 1884(1884-02-20) (aged 64)
Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)Shipowner, lawyer
Spouse
Mary Weatherstone Bruce
(m. 1844;died 1881)
Children3
Parent(s)James Lindsay
Helen Allan
Relatives Charles Augustus Carlow (grandson)

William Lindsay FRSE SSC (24 November 1819 - 20 February 1884) was a Scottish shipowner who served as Provost of Leith from 1860 to 1866. Lindsay Road in Edinburgh is named after him. [1]

Contents

As a lawyer he was responsible from framing the General Police and Improvement Act (Scotland) of 1869 which was known as the Lindsay Act. [1]

Life

Memorial to William Lindsay, South Leith Parish Church Memorial to William Lindsay, South Leith Parish Church.jpg
Memorial to William Lindsay, South Leith Parish Church

He was born in 1819 on Coburg Street in North Leith. He was the son of Captain James Lindsay (d.1839), a shipmaster, and his wife, Helen Allan of Alloa.

He was apprenticed to Alexander Simson SSC nearby, at 38 Bernard Street [2] as a solicitor.

In 1860 he became Provost and Chief Magistrate of Leith and organised the remodelling of Leith Town Hall to accommodate a new court room and prison (still extant) and absorb a line of Georgian houses to the east to create Leith Police Station.

In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Williamson. [3] From 1864 until death he left the legal world and started a local shipping company, owning several ships.

In 1875, he was living at Hermitage Hill in Leith, a large Georgian villa south of Leith Links.

He died on 20 February 1884. A memorial was erected to his memory in the south aisle of South Leith Parish Church.

Family

He was married to Mary Weatherstone Bruce (d.1881). They had three children: James William (b. 1849), Mary Weatherstone (b. 1851), and William Walter (b. 1854).

He was grandfather to Charles Augustus Carlow FRSE, the son of his daughter, Mary Weatherstone Lindsay (1851-1929).

Artistic Recognition

His portrait by John Horsburgh is held by the City of Edinburgh Council [4] at Leith Town Hall (now Leith Police station) along with a marble bust of him.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leith Parish Church". Leith History.
  2. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1835-6
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN   0-902-198-84-X.
  4. "William Lindsay (1819–1884), Provost of Leith (1860–1866) | Art UK". www.artuk.org.