With the coal-fitting business he combined that of shipbroking and an agency for his brother-in-law, a Glasgow iron merchant. He established the firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co., which soon became one of the largest shipowning concerns in the world, and he retained his connection with it until ill-health compelled him to retire in 1864.
Lindsay was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Monmouth in April and for Dartmouth in July 1852, but was elected, after a severe contest, for Tynemouth and North Shields in March 1854. He continued to represent Tynemouth until the general election in April 1859, when his warm advocacy of a repeal of the navigation laws compelled him to withdraw before the polling. He was returned, however, for Sunderland. In 1865 he was forced by illness to retire from public life. While in the House of Commons he did all he could to protect maritime interests, both naval and commercial, and he took an active part in the formation of the Administrative Reform Association. After his retirement Lindsay occupied himself with literary work. He died at Shepperton Manor, Middlesex, on 28 Aug. 1877. In 1842 he married Miss Helen Stewart of Glasgow.
Lindsay strove by his pen to improve the shipping laws, not only in England, but in foreign countries, particularly in France and America, and he persistently advocated the removal of all restrictions on free trade in maritime affairs. His great work, entitled ‘History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce. … With illustrations,’ 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1874–6, will long remain the most comprehensive book on the subject. Among his other writings may be mentioned: 1. ‘Letters on the Navigation Laws,’ 8vo, London, 1849, reprinted from the ‘Morning Herald.’ 2. ‘Our Navigation and Mercantile Marine Laws, considered with a view to their general revision and consolidation; also, an Enquiry into the principal Maritime Institutions,’ 8vo, London, 1852; 2nd edit., condensed, 1853. 3. ‘Confirmation of Admiralty Mismanagement … with Reply to the Charges of Sir C. Wood … June 22 and July 10,’ 8vo, London, 1855. 4. ‘Remarks on the Law of Partnership and Limited Liability,’ 8vo, London, 1856, being correspondence with his friend Richard Cobden, M.P. 5. ‘Our Merchant Shipping: its present state considered,’ 8vo, London, 1860. 6. ‘Manning the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine … also Belligerent and Neutral Rights in the event of War: a Review of the past and present Methods,’ 8vo, London, 1877. A collection of his speeches on navy expenditure was privately printed. Lindsay related many of his sea experiences in the ‘Log of my Leisure Hours,’ 3 vols., and in ‘Recollections of a Sailor;’ the latter work he did not live to complete.
[Sunderland Times, 31 Aug. 1877; Sunderland Herald, 31 Aug. 1877; Morley's Life of Cobden, ii. 221–2.]
LINDSELL, AUGUSTINE, (d. 1634), bishop of Hereford, was born at Bumstead-Steeple, Essex. On 4 April 1592 he was admitted pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Addit. MS. 5875, f. 5), but was subsequently scholar and fellow of Clare Hall. He graduated B.A. in 1595-6, M.A. in 1599, and D.D in 1621 (University Register). In March 1610 he became rector of Wickford, Essex, and prebendary of Lincoln in November 1612 (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 145). On 9 July 1614 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss. i. 300). Neile, bishop of Durham, patronised him. appointed him his chaplain, and collated him to the tenth stall in Durham Cathedral on 5 March 1618-19 (Le Neve, iii. 318), which he resigned for the second stall in August 1620 (ib. iii. 310). He was an unsuccessful candidate for the regius professorship of Greek vacant by the resignation of Andrew Downes [q. v.] in 1627. He was installed dean of Lichfield 15 Oct. 1628 (ib. i. 310). On 10 Feb. 1632-3 he was consecrated bishop of Peterborough (ib. ii. 534-5), and in March 1633-4 was translated to Hereford (ib. i. 471). He died unmarried on 6 Nov. 1634, and was buried in Hereford Cathedral. To Clare Hall Library he bequeathed all his Greek manuscripts and some Greek books; to Sir Robert Cotton he gave a manuscript history of Ely Cathedral in Latin (will registered in P.C.C. III, Seagar).
His admirable edition of Theophylact's 'Commentaries on St. Paul's Epistles' was published by Dr. T. Baily, his coadjutor in the work (fol. London, 1636). It is dedicated to Archbishop Laud, of whose policy Lindsell had been a firm supporter.
[Prynne's Canterburies Doome, passim; Prynne's Antipathie, pp. 304-5; Heylyn's Life of Laud, pp. 55, 66, 214, 249; Parr's Life of Ussher, pp. 85, 330, 406, 426; Troubles of Laud, pp. 12, 366; Mullinger's Hist. of Univ.of Cambridge, ii. 420n.; Gunton's Peterborough. p. 83; Peck's Desiderata. i. 52, ii. 52, 53; Fuller's Worthies, 1652, p.326; Cole MS. vol. 1. f. 34.]
LINDSEY, Earls of. [See Bertie, Robert, 1572–1642, first Earl; Bertie, Montague, 1608?–1666, second Earl.]
LINDSEY, THEOPHILUS (1723–1808), unitarian, born at Middlewich, Cheshire, on 20 June 1723, was youngest son by his second
