Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker

Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker CBE (14 May 1879-18 March 1952), known as Sandie Lindsay, was a British academic and peer.

Born at Glasgow, to the Reverend Thomas Martin Lindsay (1845-1914) and his wife Anna Dunlop (1845-1903), Lindsay was educated at The Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow, and University College, Oxford (where he took a Double First), and began his academic career at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Lindsay was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1906-52) and, after a spell as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1922-24), became Master (1924-49). He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1924 to 1925. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1935-38).

Lindsay was the first Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire and in effect the founder of Keele University.

In 1938 Lindsay stood for Parliament in the Oxford by-election as an 'Independent Progressive' on the single issue of opposition to the Munich Agreement, with support from the Labour and Liberal parties as well as from many Conservatives including the future Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, but lost to the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg.

Lindsay married Erica Violet Storr (b. 1877, d. 28 May 1962), daughter of Francis Storr, in 1907. He was elevated to the peerage on 13 November 1945 as Baron Lindsay of Birker, of Low Ground in the County of Cumberland. He died in 1952, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Michael Francis Morris Lindsay.

External links

* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRlindsayAS.htm A. D. Lindsay]
* [http://www.clanlindsay.com/alexander_dunlop_lindsay.htm Alexander Dunlop Lindsay]
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~labclub/looklefts/MT02/W3MT02.pdf University of Oxford]
* [http://www.workpad.com/download.aspx?ObjectPropertyID=149957 The Oxford Experience]