Thomas Martin Lindsay

Thomas Martin Lindsay FRSE (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow.

He was then living at "Thornliebank" on Ann Street in the Hillhead district[2] when he married Anna Dunlop.

[4] He then moved to the more affluent address of 37 Westbourne Gardens in Kelvinside,[5] an attractive three-storey and basement Victorian terraced house.

He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage[6] Lindsay unsuccessfully supported William Robertson Smith in a trial for heresy between 1877 and 1881 which resulted in Smith's losing his position at the Aberdeen Free Church College.

The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started at the suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell in 1868.