• Source: Charles Lindsay (bishop)

      • Charles Dalrymple Lindsay (also spelt Lyndsay; 15 December 1760 – 8 August 1846), was Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora from 1803 to 1804 when he was translated to Kildare.


      Life


      Lindsay was the son of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres and Anne Dalrymple. He was educated at Wisbech Grammar School and then the University of Glasgow, and in 1779 received a Snell Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1783, M.A. 1786, and D.D. at Glasgow in 1804. He was chairman of the Wisbech Canal company.
      He held the following positions in the church:

      Vicar of St Peter and St Paul, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 1787–1795
      Vicar of Sutterton, Lincolnshire 1793–1803
      Rector of Tydd St Giles, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 1795–1803
      Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1803–1804
      Bishop of Kildare 1804–1846
      Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1804–1846


      Family


      Linsday married firstly Elizabeth Fydell, daughter of Thomas Fydell , on 1 January 1790. They had three children:

      Charles Lindsay (1790–1855), Archdeacon of Kildare
      Elizabeth Frances Lindsay (1791–1812), married Sir Compton Domvile
      Philip Yorke Lindsay (1795–1832)
      Linsday married secondly Catherine Eliza Coussmaker, daughter of Evert George Coussmaker and Mary Heyward, on 2 June 1798. They had one child:

      George Hayward Lindsay (1799–1886)


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