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George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie (died 1671) was a Scottish nobleman. ==Life== He was the second son of Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie, by his second wife, Lady Margaret Hay, only daughter of George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull. He succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1646. A supporter of Charles I of Great Britain, Spynie opposed the surrender of the king to the English. As colonel of the Stirling and Clackmannan horse he took part in the "engagement2 for the rescue of the king from the English in 1648. On 20 December 1650 he was appointed one of the colonels of horse for Forfarshire.〔 Taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester in 1651, Spynie was on 16 September committed to the Tower of London. He was excepted from Cromwell's Act of Grace in 1654, and on 5 May forfaulted at the Edinburgh Market Cross.〔 Spynie was reinstated in his possessions at the Restoration of 1660. On the death of Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford, in 1666, he was served his heir, and became the chief representative of the Lindsay family. He died without issue before December 1671, when the title, being limited to heirs male, became extinct.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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