James Ludovic Lindsay
1847–1913
Astronomer, book collector, and electrical inventor. Moved to Scotland from London, 1872, and built an observatory near Aberdeen. Joined the expedition to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. MP for Wigan, 1874–80. President, Royal Astronomical Society, 1878 and 1879. Succeeded his father as earl of Crawford and earl of Balcarres, 1880. FRS 1878.
Sources
Noakes 2007
ODNB.
Bibliography
Noakes, Richard. 2007. Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 61: 5–21.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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