David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, (20 November 1900 – 13 December 1975), known as Lord Balniel from 1913 to 1940, was a British Unionist politician.

Life

Lindsay was born at 49 Moray Place in western

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on 20 November 1900, the eldest son of the 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres and his wife, Constance Lilian Perry. He was educated at Eton, graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1922 and entered the

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(MP) for Lonsdale two years later, at the 1924 general election. He held his seat until he succeeded to his father's titles in May 1940 and was also

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to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1924 and to the

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from 1931 to 1940. In 1951, Lord Crawford was made a

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for his services to the Arts, having been a

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of the

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from 1932 to 1937, the

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from 1935 to 1941, 1945–52 and 1953–60, the

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from 1940 to 1973 and a member of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries from 1937 to 1952, Chairman of the Trustees of the

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from 1952 to 1972, the

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from 1943 to 1957 and the Trustees of the

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in 1944. In 1953 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were John F. Allen, David Jack, Edward Copson, and Daniel Edwin Rutherford. In 1954, he was elected an International Member of the

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. He was awarded the Order of the Thistle in 1955 for his time spent as

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from 1952 to 1955. From 1945 to 1965 he was chairman of the

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. He died at

Balcarres House Balcarres House lies 1km north of the village of Colinsburgh, in the East Neuk of Fife, in eastern Scotland. It is centred on a mansion built in 1595 by John Lindsay (1552–1598), second son of David, 9th Earl of Crawford. The house became t ...

, near Colinsburgh in

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on 13 December 1975. He is buried in the family chapel at Balcarres House.

Family

On 9 December 1925, the then Lord Balniel married Mary Katherine Cavendish, third daughter of Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (younger brother of

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). They had three sons: * Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford (born 5 March 1927) * Hon Patrick Lindsay (14 November 1928 – 1986) * Hon Thomas Richard Lindsay (18 February 1937 – 2020) Lord Crawford died in 1975, aged 75 and his titles passed to his eldest son, Robert.

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Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of the American Philosophical Society