Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baronet, CBE, DSO (22 August 1905 - 5 May 1981) was a British army officer and explorer. He came to fame in the 1930s leading a succession of expeditions to Greenland, and later went into politics; he was elected as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament after the Second World War. Lindsay was from a long-established Scottish noble family and traced his own descent as 22nd in line to Sir William Lindsay who was created Lord Lindsay of Crawford in 1398. His own father was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, who sent his son to Wellington College.

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