Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet
Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baronet, CBE, DSO (22 August 1905 – 5 May 1981) was a British army officer and explorer. He came to fame in the 1930s leading a succession of expeditions to Greenland, and later went into politics; he was elected as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament after the Second World War.
Read more about Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet: Family, Army Career, Exploration, Politics, Second World War, Election To The House of Commons 1945, Writing, Pressure On The Churchill Government, Car Industry, Retirement From Politics, Legacies and Divorce, References
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