James Lindsay (North Devon MP)

James Louis Lindsay (16 December 1906 – 27 August 1997) was a British Conservative Party politician.

[1] Lindsay fought in the Second World War as a Major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

He served for one term until the 1959 election,[2] when he lost his seat by only 362 votes to the Liberal candidate Jeremy Thorpe,[3] who went on to become his party's leader.

They had three sons and one daughter: James Lindsay died in August 1997, aged 90.

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