Archibald Bethune, 13th Earl of Lindsay

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Archibald Lionel Bethune was born on 14 August 1872 at Garnock, North Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the second son of David Bethune, 11th Earl of Lindsay and Emily Marian Crosse. Before his parents' marriage, his mother was widowed from Capt. Edmund Charles Barnes. His elder brother, Reginald, married Beatrice Mary Shaw (daughter of John Shaw of Welburn Hall),{{cite news |title=Earl and Countess of Lindsay Here. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/07/26/archives/earl-and-countess-of-lindsay-here.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 1919}} His younger sister, Lady Muriel Maud Stuart Bethune, married Watkin James Yuille Strang Watkins of Shotton Hall, Shropshire, and, after his death, Joseph Alexander Drummond Kirkpatrick.{{cite web |title=Lady Muriel Maud Stuart Kirkpatrick (née Bethune) (died 1936), Former wife of Watkin J.Y.S. Watkins, and later wife of Joseph Kirkpatrick; daughter of 11th Earl of Lindsay |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp62766/lady-muriel-maud-stuart-kirkpatrick-nee-bethune |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=24 February 2025 |language=en}}

His paternal grandparents were David Ayton-Lindsay and Jane Emilia Ayton. His maternal grandfather was Robert Crosse of Doctors' Commons, London.

Upon the death of his elder brother Reginald on 14 January 1939, he succeeded as the 22nd Lord Lindsay of the Byres, the 12th Lord Kilbirny and Drumry, the 13th Earl of Lindsay, the 13th Lord Parbroath, the 12th Viscount of Garnock, all in the Peerage of Scotland.

On 31 January 1900,{{cite news |title=SCOTTISH NOBLE TO WED A BOSTON GIRL. Hon. Archibald Lionel Lindsay Will Make Miss Ethel Tucker His Bride Today in Emmanuel Church |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-scottish-noble-to-wed-a/166241451/ |access-date=20 February 2025 |work=The Boston Globe |date=31 January 1900 |pages=8}} Bethune married American heiress Ethel Tucker (1878–1942),{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=LADY ETHEL LINDSAY; Daughter of Ex-Head of Tucker, Anthony & Co., Bankers, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/06/01/archives/lady-ethel-lindsay-daughter-of-exhead-of-tucker-a-anthony-co.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=1 June 1942}} daughter of New York banker William Austin Tucker and Elizabeth Foster (a daughter of The Right Rev. Randolph Sinks Foster, Bishop of Ohio).{{cite news |title=MRS. WILLIAM A. TUCKER |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/06/archives/mrs-william-a-tucker.html |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=6 March 1937}} Her brother, Ralph Tucker, married Mona Louise House (a daughter of diplomat Edward M. House).{{cite news |title=COLONEL HOUSE DIES HERE AT AGE OF 79; Wilson's Adviser in the Days of World War Succumbs in Sleep--Mourned by Statesmen Family Summoned to Room Known as "Man of Mystery" COLONEL HOUSE DIES HERE AT AGE OF 79 In the Governorship Days House's Political Training Campaign for Bryan's Support Advice to Wilson on Harvey Part in Formation of Cabinet His Impressions of Wilson. Estimate In Retrospect Found Us Ripe for Dictatorship |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/29/archives/colonel-house-dies-here-at-age-of-79-wilsons-adviser-in-the-days-of.html?searchResultPosition=7 |access-date=20 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=29 March 1938}} An artist, Ethel had studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women.{{cite web |title=Tucker sisters |url=https://www.nickthedart.org/local/jcpc/artists/tuckers.htm |website=www.nickthedart.org |access-date=24 February 2025}} Before their divorce in 1906,{{cite news |title=DIVORCED FROM EARL'S SON. Papa-in-law Got Tired of Supporting Titled Husband |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-washington-post-divorced-from-earls/166241542/ |access-date=20 February 2025 |work=The Washington Post |date=14 March 1906 |pages=11}}{{cite book |last1=MacColl |first1=Gail |last2=Wallace |first2=Carol McD |title=To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey) |date=15 March 2012 |publisher=Workman Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-7611-7198-0 |page=353 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/To_Marry_an_English_Lord/rr7MRSed7h8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA353 |access-date=20 February 2025 |language=en}} they were the parents of:{{cite book |last1=Montague-Smith |first1=Patrick W. |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |date=2000 |publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited |page=1009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCQrAQAAIAAJ |access-date=19 February 2025 |language=en}}

• William Tucker Lindesay-Bethune, 14th Earl of Lindsay (1901–1985), who married Marjory Cross, a daughter of Arthur John Graham Cross and Marjory ({{nee}} Edwards),{{refn|group=lower-alpha|After her father's death in 1906, her mother married Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke in 1916, becoming Baroness Hawke.{{cite book | last=Hesilrige | first=Arthur G. M. | year=1921 | title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy | url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/461 | location=160A, Fleet Street, London, UK | publisher=Dean & Son | page=461 }}}} in 1925.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2344.

Eight months their divorce, she married Ezra C. Fitch Jr., son of the president of the Waltham Watch Company, and remained married to him until his death in 1917. Archibald and Ethel remarried in 1921,{{cite news |title=MRS FITCH REMARRIED TO HER FIRST HUSBAND. Former Ethel Tucker Becomes Bride of Hon Archibald Lionel Bethune, Whom She Divorced 16 Years Ago |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-mrs-fitch-remarried-to/166599036/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The Boston Globe |date=18 May 1921 |pages=1, 3}} moved to 10 Bridge St., Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, and remained married until her death on 31 May 1942.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=LADY ETHEL LINDSAY; Daughter of Ex-Head of Tucker, Anthony & Co., Bankers, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/06/01/archives/lady-ethel-lindsay-daughter-of-exhead-of-tucker-a-anthony-co.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=1 June 1942}}{{cite news |title=REWEDS DIVORCED WIFE AFTER 16 YEARS; Archibald L. Lindsay, Earl's Brother, and Mrs. Ezra C. Fitch Jr., Widow, Marry Again. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/18/archives/reweds-divorced-wife-after-16-years-archibald-l-lindsay-earls.html?searchResultPosition=8 |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=18 May 1921}} Ethel had another sister, Marian, who died unmarried and left half of her estate to her and their son, William, in 1941.{{cite news |title=MRS. PRENDERGAST TO SHARE IN AUNTS ESTATE |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=JCR19411211-01.2.16&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=The Jefferson County Republican |issue=24 |date=December 11, 1941}} Lord Lindsay died on 15 October 1943, aged 71, at his home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=13TH EARL OF LINDSAY; Manchester, Mass, Resident, 71, Succeeded to Title in 1937 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/10/16/archives/13th-earl-of-lindsay-manchester-mass-resident-71-succeeded-to-title.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=16 October 1943}}

Through his only son, he was a grandfather of four, including David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay.

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