page_title: David Lindsay (explorer)
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: David Lindsay (explorer) / Later life
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context_page_description: David Lindsay was an Australian explorer and surveyor and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
context_section_description: In 1895 Lindsay was in business as a stockbroker, formed various companies connected with Western Australian goldmines, and shortly before World War I broke out in 1914 was in London raising capital for development work in the Northern Territory. This and other projects had to be abandoned on account of the war.
  After the war, Lindsay was in the Northern Territory for three and a half years carrying out topographical surveys for the Australian Federal government. Some good pastoral land was discovered, and Lindsay proved that the Queensland artesian water system extended some 150 miles further west than its supposed limits. He was working in the north again in 1922 but was attacked by illness and died in the Darwin hospital of valvular disease of the heart on 17 December 1922.
  Lindsay married Annie Theresa Stuart Lindsay on 10 March 1881. She was a daughter of (unrelated) Arthur Lindsay, longtime Superintendent of Adelaide Destitute Asylum. She survived him with four sons and a daughter.
  Lindsay was tall and broad-shouldered of a genial disposition, a typical and capable bushman.
caption: Lindsay circa 1897
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