Lindsay, Alexander, first earl of Balcarres
(1618–1659)
- David Stevenson
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Lindsay, Alexander, first earl of Balcarres (1618–1659), royalist army officer, eldest son of David, first Lord Lindsay of Balcarres (d. 1641) and Sophia Seton, daughter of the first earl of Dunfermline, was born on 6 July 1618 at Balcarres in Fife. He attended ...