Career
Lindsay was appointed Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in January 1901, and advanced to First Secretary in 1911. From 1913 to 1919 he was Under-Secretary of Finance for Egypt, and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of the Nile by the Sultan of Egypt in 1915. From 1919 to 1920 he was Councillor of the Embassy in Washington D.C., before being posted as Minister Plenipotentiary to France in September 1920. Following this, in 1921, he was appointed the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Office, a post he held until 1924. In 1925, he was appointed the Ambassador to Turkey and was sworn of the Privy Council later that year. In 1926, he moved to become Ambassador to Germany. He returned to London in 1928 to become the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the civil service head of the Foreign Office. After two years as Permanent Secretary, Lindsay was named as the Ambassador to the United States in November 1929 and took up the position early the next year. He remained in Washington for almost a decade, retiring in June 1939 to be replaced by Lord Lothian.
Lindsay was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1908, a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1922, a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1924, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1926.
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