John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford

Lieutenant-General John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford (4 October 1702 – 25 December 1749) was a Scottish peer and the first colonel of the Black Watch on its formation in 1739.

In the summer of 1739, during the Battle of Grocka (part of Siege of Belgrade), he was badly wounded by a bullet to his thigh and was almost abandoned for dead on the battlefield.

However, after partial recovery and against advice, he travelled back to Vienna,[1] and onward to Britain, where he took command of the Black Watch (1739–1740).

The widowed Crawford shared his London home, 35 Upper Brook Street, with his mother-in-law, the Duchess of Atholl.

He was half brother (through a common mother, Lady Emelia Stuart, Countess of Crawford) to the judge Alexander Fraser, Lord Strichen.