Robert Lindsay (1679-1743) was an Irish barrister, politician and judge in eighteenth-century Ireland.
He is best remembered for his close friendship with Jonathan Swift, whom he advised on the legal aspects of the Drapier Letters.
[1] Lindsay advised Swift on some legal points concerning the Drapier Letters, and Swift was probably responsible for Lindsay's appointment as Proctor's counsel and later Seneschal (legal adviser) of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
He also acted as legal adviser to Esther Van Homrigh, Swift's much-loved "Vanessa".
[2] They had one surviving daughter Anne, who never married, and a son who died young.