Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford

[2] He travelled to the Middle East in 1837/38, writing Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land.

[1] In 1864, he commissioned Charles James Freake to build a town house for the Lindsays in Grosvenor Square.

[8] In 1869, he inherited the earldom of Crawford and the earldom of Balcarres from his father James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, 7th Earl of Balcarres, Lindsay died in 1880 aged 68 in Florence, Italy and his coffin was brought home for burial in a new family crypt at Dunecht House, near Aberdeen.

A monument marks where the body was found at Dunecht but the Earl's remains were reburied in the family vault in Wigan.

They had 7 children: The Bibliotheca Lindesiana, was planned by Lord Lindsay and both he and his eldest son were instrumental in building it up to such an extent that was one of the most impressive private collections in Britain at the time, both for its size and for the rarity of some of the materials it contained.