Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage

Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage

Brigadier-General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage of Lockinge, VC, KCB, FRS, (April 16 1832 – June 10 1901) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British forces. He was later a notable MP, a benefactor to Wantage, one of the founders of the British Red Cross Society, for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria, and a distinguished philanthropist and luminary of Victorian society.

Background

Robert James Lindsay was born in 1832, the second son of Lieut-General Hon. James Lindsay and Anne, daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart In 1858, he married Harriet Sarah Loyd, the only child and heiress of Lord Overstone, one of the richest men in the country, who endowed the couple with a considerable fortune and the Lockinge estate near Wantage.

Details of decorated service

He was 22 years old, and an officer in the Scots (Fusilier) Guards, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 20 September 1854 at the Battle of the Alma, Crimea, Senior Subaltern Lindsay, with a group of other officers, rallied a party of NCOs and men round the Colours and they held their ground against an overwhelming force. On 5 November at Inkerman, Captain Lindsay, with a few men, charged a large party of Russians, driving them back in hand-to-hand fighting and killing one of them himself.

He was later involved in the volunteer movement, serving as Colonel of the Royal Berkshire Volunteers, and subsequently Brigadier-General of the Home Counties Brigade.

Life and offices

He served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Berkshire from 1865 until he was elevated to the peerage in 1885, and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1886 until his death. Having been initiated as a freemason, passed and raised in Malta en route to the Crimea in 1854, he became Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire from 1898 until his death in 1901. As he died childless, his title became extinct.

Wantage Hall

In 1908, Lady Wantage officially opened Wantage Hall, the first Hall of Residence in the University of Reading, in honour of Lord Wantage.

References

*Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
*The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
*Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)

External links

* [http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/oxfordsh.htm Location of grave and VC medal] "(Oxfordshire)"
* [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/rjllinsay.html Royal Berkshire History: Colonel Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage of Lockinge]


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