MEN OF THE DAY. No. 269.

COLONEL THE HONOURABLE CHARLES HUGH LINDSAY, C.B.

COLONEL LINDSAY is the uncle of the present Lord Crawford and Balcarres, and the father of Miss Violet Lindsay. Born six-and-sixty years ago, he served in his youth as an officer of Grenadiers in the Crimea, and having retired from the Army, he took an active part in the Volunteer movement, and to this day commands the Saint George's Rifles. For nine years he sat in Parliament as Conservative Member for Abingdon. He is a Groom in Waiting to the Queen. He is extremely well-known and popular, and combines in himself the representation of the Army, the Court, and the Volunteers.