Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage
| The Lord Wantage | |
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Robert Loyd-Lindsay c.1882
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| Born |
17 April 1832 Berkeley Street, Mary-le-bone |
| Died | 10 June 1901 (aged 69) Wantage, Oxfordshire |
| Buried at | Ardington Church (Vault) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | British Army |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Unit | 1st Battalion, Scots (Fusilier) Guards Honourable Artillery Company Home Counties Brigade 1st Volunteer Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) |
| Battles/wars | Franco-Prussian War (Red Cross) |
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Victoria Cross Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Volunteer Officers' Decoration Commander of the Legion of Honour (France) Knight of the Order of the Medjidie (Ottoman Empire) 3rd Class Order of the Crown, 3rd Class with Cross of Geneva (Prussia) |
| Other work |
Member of Parliament for Berkshire Financial Secretary to the War Office Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire |
Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC, KCB, VD (17 April 1832 – 10 June 1901) was a British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, and one of the founders of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War (later the British Red Cross Society), for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria.
Lindsay was born in 1832, the second son of Lieutenant General Sir James Lindsay, 1st Baronet and Anne, daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st Baronet. His elder brother Coutts Lindsay succeeded his maternal grandfather as second Baronet in 1837 (see Lindsay Baronets). In 1858, he married The Honorable Harriet Sarah Jones-Loyd, the only surviving child and heiress of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st and last Baron Overstone, one of the richest men in the country, who endowed the couple with a considerable fortune and the Lockinge Estate near Wantage.
Lindsay fought as a captain in the Scots (Fusilier) Guards during the Crimean War. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 20 September 1854 at the Battle of the Alma and 5 November at the Battle of Inkerman. The London Gazette described his actions as follows:
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