CLAIM TO AN EARLDOM.
MELBOURNE MAN'S QUEST. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Melbourne, January 17. Mr. Bethuno Lindsay, formerly a station overseer, residing at Albert Parle, claims to bo the rightful Earl of Lindsay, head of the famous Scottish family. He declares that he is' identical' with Henry James Hamilton, 1 who is stated in Burke's Peerngo to Vhavo been born in 183 i and to have died at Marseilles in IBG2. The present Enrl is a cousin of tho claimant: In 1910'Lindsay married tho widow of John Close, of South' Africa. Ho sails in March to. claim, tho enrldom. The Enrldom ;of Lindsay, in the Peerago of Scotland, was created in 1G33, and tho present holder is the eleventh of tho line. Ho was n second cousin onco removed of tho 10th Earl. Tho titlo has a- complicated history, and was for somo ICG years associated with the Earldom of Crawford.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 5
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150CLAIM TO AN EARLDOM. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 5
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