Thomas Martin Lindsay
Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow.
He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including Luther and the German Reformation (1900), and A History of the Reformation in Europe (1906–1907).
Life
Born and brought up in Lanarkshire, the eldest son of Alexander Lindsay, Lindsay attended the University of Glasgow and then that of Edinburgh. In 1869 he entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland, and in 1872 was appointed Professor of church history at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He took up the position of Principal of the college in 1902.[1][2]
Lindsay was a prolific writer on church history, his published work including Luther and the German Reformation (1900), and A History of the Reformation in Europe (two volumes, 1906 and 1907). He was a contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica and to the Cambridge Modern History.[1][2]
Lindsay unsuccessfully supported William Robertson Smith in a trial for heresy between 1877 and 1881 which resulted in Smith's losing his position at the Aberdeen Free Church College.[1][2]
Lindsay married Anna Dunlop (1845–1903), and their children included Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[3]
Notes
- 1 2 3 'Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843–1914), historian' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- 1 2 3 Thomas Martin Lindsay at biblicaltraining.org, accessed 19 June 2013
- ↑ Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com(subscription site), accessed 20 June 2013
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