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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Lindsay | | | First names | Hugh | | | Rank/ occupation | Commander & EIC Director & MP |  | Unit | Indiaman | | | Death date | 23 Apr 1844 | | | Place of death | London  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Aug 1844 | | | Page number | 204 | | | Detail | At his house in Berkeley-square, aged 78, the Hon. Hugh Lindsay, Marshal of the Court of Admiralty, a Director of the East India Company, and a Commissioner for the Lieutenancy of London; uncle to the Earl of Balcarres, and brother to the Countess Dowager of Hardwicke and the Lord Bishop of Kildare. He was born Oct. 30, 1765, the eight son and eleventh and youngest child of James 5th Earl of Balcarres, by Anne, youngest daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple, of Castleton. He served in early life in the Royal Navy, and was present in several actions under Lord Rodney and Lord St Vincent, and among others in that of the 1st of June. He afterwards became Commander of an Indiamanin the service of the Hon. E.I. Company. He was first elected a member of the Court of Directors in 1814. In 1820 he was returned to Parliament for the boroughs of Forfar, Perth, Dundee, Cupar, and St Andrew's, for which he sat until 1830. He married at Bargeny Jan. 14, 1799, Jane, second daughter of the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville, great-uncle to the present Earl of Aberdeen; and by that lady, who survives him, had issue Anne, married in 1817 to Sir Edmund W.R. Antrobus, Bart.; and Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, esq. M.P. for Deal and Sandwich. |
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