David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford
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David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, PC, KT (October 10, 1871 – March 8, 1940), known as Lord Balcarres from 1880 to 1913, was a British Conservative politician.
Crawford was the eldest son of James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres and his wife Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham. In 1895 he was elected to Parliament for Chorley and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1903 to 1905 under Arthur Balfour. In 1913 he succeeded his father and took his seat in the House of Lords (in virtue of his junior title of Baron Wigan, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom). Crawford was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed President of the Board of Agriculture in July 1916 in the coalition government of David Lloyd George, a post he held until December of that year, and then served as Lord Privy Seal from 1916 to 1919, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1919 to 1921, as First Commissioner of Works from 1921 to 1922 and as Minister of Transport in 1922. However, it was only from April 1922 that he was a member of the cabinet. In 1921 Crawford was made a Knight of the Thistle.
Lord Crawford married Constance Lilian Pelly, daughter of Sir Henry Pelly, 3rd Bt, in 1900. They had eight children, two sons and six daughters. One daughter, Lady Mary Lilian Lindsay (1910–2004), married Reginald Manningham-Buller, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1962 to 1964. Their second daughter was Dame Eliza, Director-General of MI5 from 2002 to 2007.
Lord Crawford died in March 1940, aged 68. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son David Alexander Robert Lindsay.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by The Earl of Selborne |
President of the Board of Agriculture 1916 |
Succeeded by Rowland Edmund Prothero |
| Preceded by The Earl Curzon |
Lord Privy Seal 1916–1919 |
Succeeded by Andrew Bonar Law |
| Preceded by The Lord Downham |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1919–1921 |
Succeeded by The Viscount Peel |
| Preceded by Sir Alfred Mond |
First Commissioner of Works 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by Sir John Baird |
| Preceded by The Viscount Peel |
Minister of Transport 1922 |
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| Peerage of Scotland | ||
| Preceded by James Ludovic Lindsay |
Earl of Crawford 1913–1940 |
Succeeded by David Alexander Lindsay |
