Lord Lindsay of Birker | |
|---|---|
| Principal of Keele University | |
| In office 1949–1952 | |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Lennard-Jones |
| Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University | |
| In office 1935–1938 | |
| Preceded by | Francis John Lys |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Lennard-Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexander Dunlop Lindsay 14 May 1879 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 18 March 1952 (aged 72) |
| Political party | Popular Front |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow University College, Oxford |
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, CBE (14 May 1879 – 18 March 1952),[1] known as Sandie Lindsay, was a Scottish academic and peer.[2][3][4]
Lindsay worked at a number of universities, beginning his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and as an assistant lecturer at Victoria University of Manchester. He then moved to Balliol College, Oxford where he had been elected a fellow in 1906. He served in the British Army during the First World War. He was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1922 to 1924, before returning to the University of Oxford as master of Balliol College 1924. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1935 to 1938. Having retired from Oxford in 1949, he became the first principal of the University College of North Staffordshire (now Keele University).
Lindsay had unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons in the 1938 Oxford by-election, as an independent candidate opposed to the Munich Agreement. He was, however, made a baron on 13 November 1945, and thereby sat as a peer in the House of Lords.