Back Robert Lindsay, 29. Earl of Crawford German Robert Lindsay (29e comte de Crawford) French Robert Lindsay, XXIX conte di Crawford Italian ロバート・リンジー (第29代クロフォード伯爵) Japanese Robert Lindsay (29. hrabia Crawford) Polish Линдси, Роберт, 29-й граф Кроуфорд Russian Robert Lindsay, 29t Earl o Crawford SCO
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres | |
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| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
| In office 5 November 1972 – 4 March 1974 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
| Preceded by | Joseph Godber |
| Succeeded by | David Ennals |
| Minister of State for Defence | |
| In office 23 June 1970 – 5 November 1972 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Ian Gilmour |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Hereditary peerage 13 December 1975 – 11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 28th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Life peerage 24 January 1975 – 28 November 2019[1] | |
| Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield | |
| In office 28 February 1974 – 20 September 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Helene Hayman |
| Member of Parliament for Hertford | |
| In office 26 May 1955 – 8 February 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Derek Walker-Smith |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Robert Alexander Lindsay 5 March 1927 |
| Died | 18 March 2023 (aged 96) Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Ruth Meyer-Bechtler
(m. 1949; died 2021) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent |
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| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, 12th Earl of Balcarres,[2] Baron Balniel,[3] KT, GCVO, PC, DL (5 March 1927 – 18 March 2023),[4] known by courtesy as Lord Balniel between 1940 and 1975, was a Scottish hereditary peer and Conservative politician who was a member of Parliament from 1955 to 1974. Lord Crawford and Balcarres was chief of Clan Lindsay and also acted, from 1975 to 2019, as Premier Earl of Scotland.[5]
After the October 1974 general election, Lindsay was made a life peer and joined the House of Lords. Following the death of Lord Eden of Winton on 23 May 2020, Lindsay became the surviving former MP with the earliest date of first election, having first entered Parliament at the 1955 general election.[4]
- ^ Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
- ^ Succeeded to these titles upon the death of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford, 11th Earl of Balcarres, in December 1975.
- ^ Granted a peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as Baron Balniel, of Pitcorthie in the County of Fife, in January 1975.
- ^ a b "Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Tory defence minister and last survivor of 1955 Commons intake – obituary". The Telegraph. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023 – via Yahoo News.
- ^ The Premier Earldom in the Peerage of Scotland is that of Sutherland, created circa 1230. Held for a long time by the Leveson-Gower family, this earldom passed to Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (1921–2019) in 1963, who, as a woman, was at the time considered to be unsuitable for functioning as Premier Earl, so the Earls of Crawford, being next in the order of precedence, occupied the position until the earldom of Sutherland passed to a male holder (Alistair Sutherland, 25th Earl of Sutherland, born 1947) in 2019.
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