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OBITUARY. 75
when in a moment all was shattered, and a valuable life cut
short. He was taken, terribly injured, to tlie Bournemouth
Hospital, where he lingered for about ten days, and died on
October 1st.
John Ormsby Lindsay belonged to the South of Ireland
branch of the family, which came over from Scotland early in
the seventeenth century. His great-grandfather was Thomas
Lindsay of Ballinard Castle, Co. Tippurary ; his grandfather was
John Lindsay of Maryville, Co. Cork, Barri.ster-at-law, a well
known collector of coins, and erutlite writer on Irish, Aufdo-
Saxon, Roman, Greek, Phoenician, Parthian, and other Numis-
matology ; and his father was Edward Lind.say, a Barrister in
Dublin, whose promising career was cut short at a comparatively
early age.
He himself was a Solicitor in good practice in Dublin. In
his professional capacity he united to a sound judgment and
good knowledge of law a quality still more valuable, a high and
scrupulous sense of honour, so that both from his clients and
from his professional brethren he enjoyed a genuine respect, and
the most implicit confidence.
Outside his business he was a manysided man. From time
to time through his life he would take up some parergon,
such as Astronomy, Music, Italian Art, or some period of
History, and study it in his spare hours and holiday trips until
he knew enough to take a very intelligent interest in it thence-
forth. He was a charming companion, of a most genial and
sociable disposition, full of knowledge on all sorts of subjects,
and ready to impart it to a sympathetic ear, while he also
possessed the perhaps rarer gift of being a good listener.
Finally, he was a steady Churchman, of deep religious conviction
and feeling, without undue display ; for many years a member
of the Select Vestry and Choir, more than once Churchwarden,
and always a useful and valued supporter of all good work in
Booterstown Parish, where he resided.
No wonder that his funeral was the occasion of a quite
unusual demonstration of mourning, evoked not only by his
tragic death in the fulness of his useful and active life, but