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Authorised form of nameLindsay; David Alexander Edward (1871 - 1940); 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres
Dates1871 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDunecht House, Aberdeen, Scotland
Date of birth10 October 1871
Place of deathHaigh Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire
Date of death08/03/1940
ActivityHonours:
KT 1921
Membership categoryStatute 12
Date of election06/11/1924
RelationshipsSon of James, 26th Earl of Crawford (FRS 1878)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 405-407, plate, by W H Bragg
References:
Vanity Fair 22 June 1899
Notes:
Known as Lord Balcarres until his succession to the earldom in 1913.
CodeNA1315
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1924/17Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/1/45Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, David Alexander Edward Lindsay31 December 1885
MS/928/6/2/16Letter from David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, 7 Audley Square, to Charles Vernon Boys15 March 1935
MS/928/6/2/20Letter from David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, 7 Audley Square, to Charles Vernon Boys3 November 1937
NLB/67/237Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres [David Alexander Edward Lindsay], KT, FRS17 November 1924
NLB/67/157Copy letter from William Bate Hardy and James Hopwood Jeans, Secretaries of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres [David Alexander Edward Lindsay], KT6 November 1924
IM/002759Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarresnd
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