UCL

Sir John Lindsay

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1788

Biography

Royal Navy Rear Admiral and briefly MP, and father of Dido Belle. In 1774 Sir John Lindsay of Hertford Street Mayfair was one of a group of individuals purchasing, for a total of £15,000, annuities from John Mills secured on the latter's estates and enslaved people on Nevis.


Sources

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/lindsay-sir-john-1737-88; Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 65-94.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Annuitant
The Prospect [ Nevis ]

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Aberdeen Burghs Aberdeenshire / Forfar / Kincardine
1767 - 1768

Relationships (1)

Sir John Lindsay
Brothers
Sir David Lindsay
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Addresses (1)

Hertford Street, Mayfair, London, Middlesex, London, England
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