Patrick Lindsay

Biographical Summary

"Patrick Lindsay, baptized at St Andrews 10 March 1686; was an officer in Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Foot in Spain until the peace of Utrecht, when he settled in business in Edinburgh as an upholsterer, and was admitted a burgess 10 September 1722. He was Lord Provost of the city 1729-31, and again 1733-35, and member of Parliament 1734-41; Governor of the Isle of Man. He was cognosced heir of his father before he bailies of St Andrews 10 May 1744; was served heir to his mother 30 August 1748; and died at the Canongate 20 February 1753... He married, first (contract dated 22 June 1715), Margaret, daughter of David Menteir, merchant, Edinburgh; secondly, Janet, daughter of James Murray of Polton, who died s.p. November 1739; and, thirdly, 7 May 1741, Catherine Lindsay, youngest daughter of William, eighteenth Earl of Crawford. She died 20 April 1769."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. V, page 409