Hugh Primrose Lindsay (31 October 1765 – 23 April 1844) was a British naval captain, Chairman of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. He was the 5th surviving son of

James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres (14 November 1691 – 20 February 1768) was a Scottish peer, the son of Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres and Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Loudoun. He became the 5th Earl of Balcarres on ...

. He joined the Royal Navy in 1779 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1782, but by 1787 had left the navy to join the British

's (EIC) marine service, where he was promoted captain in 1793. He served as captain of the following

East Indiamen East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...

: * (1794–1797) * (1800–1807) * (1810–1811) In 1814 he was made a director of the East India Company, a position he held unto his death, being elected deputy chairman for 1826–27 and chairman for 1827–28. In 1820 he was elected MP for Perth Burghs, sitting until 1830. He died in London in 1844. He had married Jane, the daughter of the Hon.

Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville (1739 – 13 March 1792) was a Scottish judge. Life Rockville was the youngest son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by his third wife Lady Anne, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon. He bec ...

, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He was succeeded, after the death of his wife, by his son

Hugh Hamilton Lindsay Hugh Hamilton Lindsay (1802–1881) was a businessman with especial interest in China, perhaps the first Briton to visit Shanghai. The son of the Hon. Hugh Lindsay, a director of the East India Company and Jane Gordon, Lindsay went to China in 1 ...

. The EIC launched and named a

paddle steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses wer ...

for him: .

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* 1765 births 1844 deaths Directors of the British East India Company Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Dundee constituencies {{Scotland-UK-MP-stub