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James Ludovic Lindsay : ウィキペディア英語版 | James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (28 July 1847 – 31 January 1913)〔Owen Gingerich, 'Lindsay, James Ludovic, twenty-sixth earl of Crawford and ninth earl of Balcarres (1847–1913)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 15 Feb 2011 )〕〔Barker, Nicolas (1978) ''Bibliotheca Lindesiana: the Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres.'' London: for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and published by Bernard Quaritch; p. 129〕 was a British astronomer, politician, bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. He was a prominent Freemason. ==Family== The Earl was the son of Alexander the 25th Earl and his wife Margaret, born at St Germain in France.〔Barker (1978), p. 129〕 He was asthmatic and spent considerable periods at sea studying the more portable sections of the family library which had been established by his father.〔Crawford was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and owner of several private yachts that he used for scientific expeditions, most famously the 1490 ton ''Valhalla''.(see "Further reading")〕 He married Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham. One of their sons was Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, noted diplomat and ambassador to the United States, 1930–1939.
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