Family
Lindsay was from a long-established Scottish noble family and traced his own descent as 22nd in line to Sir William Lindsay who was created Lord Lindsay of Crawford in 1398. His own father was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, who sent his son to Wellington College.
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