Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker

Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker (24 February 1909-13 February 1994), was a British peer and academic ^[1].

Lindsay was the son of Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker and Erica Violet Storr ^[2]. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Balliol College Oxford. After Oxford, he became a lecturer at Yenching University in Beijing, China. He married Hsiao Li, daughter of Colonel Li Wen-Chi, on 25 June 1941, and they had one son, James Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on 29 January 1945 and two daughters, Erica (b. 1942, d. 1993) and Mary Muriel (b. 1951) ^[3].

When the Japanese invaded China during World War II, Lindsay and Hsiao Li joined the Chinese guerrilla underground ^[4].

Lindsay succeeded to the title of Baron Lindsay of Birker, of Low Ground, co. Cumberland, on 18 March 1952. This in turn made Hsiao Li Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first British peeress of Chinese origin in history ^[5].

In 2006, Hsiao Li Lindsay published a book called Bold Plum, largely written in 1947, about the war years and her marriage to Lindsay.

References

• 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker at thepeerage.com
• Alexander Dunlop Lindsay at clanlindsay.com
• Bold Plum, by Hsiao Li Lindsay (2006)
• The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV': Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 770.

1. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p13974.htm
2. ^ http://www.clanlindsay.com/alexander_dunlop_lindsay.htm
3. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7815180/Lady-Lindsay-of-Birker.html
4. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7815180/Lady-Lindsay-of-Birker.html
5. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7815180/Lady-Lindsay-of-Birker.html

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alexander Dunlop Lindsay	Baron Lindsay of Birker	Succeeded by James Francis Lindsay

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Name	Lindsay, Michael, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker
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Date of birth	1909
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Date of death	1994
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