Lionel Arthur Lindsay - Artist Info

About Lionel Arthur Lindsay

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Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay
  • Biography

    Lionel, the third son of ten children was born at Creswick Victoria, to Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915), surgeon from Londonderry, Ireland, and his wife Jane Elizabeth (1848-1932), daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams, Wesleyan missionary. The Lindsay family, originally from Ayrshire, Scotland, had settled in Tyrone in the late seventeenth century and prospered in the linen trade. Robert, after graduating in medicine at the University of Glasgow, sailed as medical officer in the Red Rose and reached Melbourne on 16 June 1864. He began to practice at Creswick and on 18 May 1869 at Ballarat married Jane.

    The boys were educated at the local state school and at Creswick Grammar School, where Lione...

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