Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker

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

Born at Glasgow, to the Reverend Thomas M. Lindsay and his wife, 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 in 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 Elizabeth Violet Storr (d. 28 May 1962), daughter of F. Storr, in 1907. They had one child, Michael Francis Morris Lindsay (24 February 1909-13 February 1994), who succeeded to the Barony on his father's death.

Lindsay was elevated to the peerage on 13 November 1945 as Baron Lindsay of Birker, of Low Ground, co. Cumberland. He died in 1952.

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