T. M. Lindsay.

Thomas Martin Lindsay FRSE (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow. He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including Luther and the German Reformation (1900), and A History of the Reformation (1906–1907).

Life

He was born on 18 October 1843 in Lesmahagow[1] in Lanarkshire, the eldest son of Rev. Alexander Lindsay, and his wife, Susan Irvine Martin. He was educated in Lesmahagow.

Lindsay studied divinity at the University of Glasgow and then at the University of Edinburgh. In 1869 he entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland, and in 1872 was appointed Professor of Church History at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He was then living at "Thornliebank" on Ann Street in the Hillhead district[2] when he married Anna Dunlop. Anna Lindsay had just been a student in Edinburgh.[3]

Lindsay took up the position of Principal of the College in 1902.[4] He then moved to the more affluent address of 37 Westbourne Gardens in Kelvinside,[5] an attractive three-storey and basement Victorian terraced house.

He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage[6]

Lindsay unsuccessfully supported William Robertson Smith in a trial for heresy between 1877 and 1881 which resulted in Smith's losing his position at the Aberdeen Free Church College.[4] He died in Glasgow on 6 December 1912.[7]

Publications

He was a contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica and to the Cambridge Modern History.[4]

Family

Lindsay married Anna Dunlop. The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started at the suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell in 1868.[8] Anna Lindsay was one of its founders. Lindsay's name was said to be synonymous with the women's movement in Scotland.[3] Their children included Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  2. ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1875
  3. ^ a b K. D. Reynolds, ‘Lindsay, Anna (1845–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Oct 2017
  4. ^ a b c 'Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843–1914), historian' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  5. ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1903
  6. ^ King, Elspeth (1978). The Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement / ... compiled by Elspeth King to accompany the Government sponsored 'Right to Vote' exhibition organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, from 9th September- 7th October 1978, Peoples Palace Museum, Glasgow Green.
  7. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  8. ^ Myers, Christine D. (1 December 2001). "The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, 1878 to 1883". Historian. 63 (2): 357–371. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2001.tb01470.x. ISSN 1540-6563. S2CID 144798761.
  9. ^ Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com(subscription site), accessed 20 June 2013

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