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William Lindsay (shipowner)
William Lindsay FRSE SSC (24 November 1819 - 20 February 1884) was a Scottish shipowner who served as Provost of Leith from 1860 to 1866. Lindsay Road in Edinburgh is named after him.[1] As a lawyer he was responsible from framing the General Police and Improvement Act (Scotland) of 1869 which was known as the Lindsay Act.[1] Life He was born in 1819 on Coburg Street in North Leith. He was the son of Captain James Lindsay (d.1839), a shipmaster, and his wife, Helen Allan of Alloa. He was apprenticed to Alexander Simson SSC nearby, at 38 Bernard Street[2] as a solicitor. In 1860 he became Provost and Chief Magistrate of Leith and organised the remodelling of Leith Town Hall to accommodate a new court room and prison (still extant) and absorb a line of Georgian houses to the east to create Leith Police Station. In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Williamson.[3] From 1864 until death he left the legal world and started a local shipping company, owning several ships. In 1875, he was living at Hermitage Hill in Leith, a large Georgian villa south of Leith Links. He died on 20 February 1884. A memorial was erected to his memory in the south aisle of South Leith Parish Church. FamilyHe was married to Mary Weatherstone Bruce (d.1881). They had three children: James William (b. 1849), Mary Weatherstone (b. 1851), and William Walter (b. 1854). He was grandfather to Charles Augustus Carlow FRSE, the son of his daughter, Mary Weatherstone Lindsay (1851-1929). Artistic RecognitionHis portrait by John Horsburgh is held by the City of Edinburgh Council[4] at Leith Town Hall (now Leith Police station) along with a marble bust of him. References
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