David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Crawford KT PC DL FRS FSA |
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| President of the Board of Agriculture | |
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In office 11 July 1916 – 5 December 1916 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Selborne |
| Succeeded by | Rowland Prothero |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 15 December 1916 – 10 January 1919 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Earl Curzon of Kedleston |
| Succeeded by | Bonar Law |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 10 January 1919 – 1 April 1921 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Lord Downham |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Peel |
| First Commissioner of Works | |
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In office 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Sir Alfred Mond, Bt |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Baird, Bt |
| Minister of Transport | |
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In office 12 April 1922 – 19 October 1922 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Peel |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Baird, Bt |
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10 October 1871 Dunecht, Aberdeenshire |
| Died | 8 March 1940 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Constance Pelly (d. 1947) |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres KT PC DL FRS FSA (10 October 1871 – 8 March 1940), styled Lord Balcarres or Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913, was a British Conservative politician and art connoisseur.
Born at Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, Crawford was the eldest son of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres and his wife Emily Florence, daughter of Colonel the Hon. Edward Bootle-Wilbraham. The Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay was his younger brother. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.
His family had extensive mining interests on the Lancashire Coalfield at Haigh near Wigan where his family had a seat at Haigh Hall. He was chairman of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company and its successor the Wigan Coal Corporation.
During World War I, in early 1915, at 43 years of age, and having refused an offer of the Viceroyalty of India, he enlisted as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, which was almost unheard of at that time as hereditary peers and their heirs or university graduates such as himself were generally commissioned as officers. Prior to the war he had held the rank of Captain in the 1st (Volunteer) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He thus swapped palaces in India and the prospect of a comfortable administrative position for the reality of a front line clearing station's operating theatre. At times up to 1,000 casualties each day passed through the clearing station at Hazebrouck where he was stationed at. This was when he developed what were described by his granddaughter, Rose Luce, as 'mixed feelings' about members of the officer classes (his own 'class', of course). In 2013 his diaries of his experiences were published as the memoir Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries: From Medical Orderly to Cabinet Minister, edited by his grandson Christopher Arnander.
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