Thomas Martin Lindsay
{{Short description|Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow}}
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Thomas Martin Lindsay FRSE (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow. He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including Luther and the German Reformation (1900), and A History of the Reformation (1906–1907).
Life
He was born on 18 October 1843 in Lesmahagow{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} in Lanarkshire, the eldest son of Rev. Alexander Lindsay, and his wife, Susan Irvine Martin. He was educated in Lesmahagow.
Lindsay studied divinity at the University of Glasgow and then at the University of Edinburgh. In 1869 he entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland, and in 1872 was appointed Professor of Church History at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He was then living at "Thornliebank" on Ann Street in the Hillhead districtGlasgow Post Office Directory 1875 when he married Anna Dunlop. Anna Lindsay had just been a student in Edinburgh.
Lindsay took up the position of Principal of the College in 1902.'Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843–1914), historian' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2007) He then moved to the more affluent address of 37 Westbourne Gardens in Kelvinside,Glasgow Post Office Directory 1903 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{{cite book|last1=King|first1=Elspeth|title=The Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement / ... compiled by Elspeth King to accompany the Government sponsored 'Right to Vote' exhibition organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, from 9th September- 7th October 1978, Peoples Palace Museum, Glasgow Green|date=1978}}
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.
He died in Glasgow on 6 December 1912.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}}
Publications
- The Critical Movement in the Free Church of Scotland (1879)
- The Reformation (1882)
- Luther and the German Reformation (1900)
- The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries (1902)
- The New Testament (1906)
- A History of the Reformation (two volumes, 1906–1907)
- An Oxford Bookseller in 1520 (1907)
- Englishmen and the Classical Renaissance (1909)
He was a contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica and to the Cambridge Modern History.
Family
Lindsay married Anna Dunlop. The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women was started at the suggestion of Mrs Jean Campbell in 1868.{{Cite journal|last=Myers|first=Christine D.|date=2001-12-01|title=The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, 1878 to 1883|journal=Historian|language=en|volume=63|issue=2|pages=357–371|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2001.tb01470.x|s2cid=144798761|issn=1540-6563}} Anna Lindsay was one of its founders. Lindsay's name was said to be synonymous with the women's movement in Scotland.K. D. Reynolds, ‘Lindsay, Anna (1845–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56265, accessed 14 Oct 2017] Their children included Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34537?docPos=1 Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker], in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com(subscription site), accessed 20 June 2013
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- [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/principal-thomas-martin-lindsay-18431914-139044 Thomas Martin Lindsay] portrait by George Fiddes Watt at bbc.co.uk
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Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Reformation historians
Category:People from Lanarkshire