James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres, KT, FRS, FRAS was a Scottish astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile, and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society,
Caricature of Lord Crawford by Leslie Ward
Lord Crawford aboard his yacht Valhalla in 1906
A book plate from the Bibliotheca Lindesiana
Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford, 8th Earl of Balcarres, styled Lord Lindsay between 1825 and 1869, was a Scottish peer, art historian and collector.
James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
…University Lodge at the University of Cambridge in 1866. The future Earl was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France on 28 July 1847, the only son of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and his wife Margaret. He was asthmatic and spent considerable periods at sea studying the more portable sections of the family library which had been…
Lord Lindsay invited the artist Antonio Schranz to Palmyra, as a part of his well armed caravan in 1837