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By Rev. T. S. Linosay, I5.D., Canon of Cliriu Chiirdi. Uul)lin.
glpJHE subject of this notice was born at Cork in
WIC' 1789, He was the eldest son of Thomas
— Lindsay, barrister-ut-law, of Maryville, Cork,
and Ballinard Castle, County Tipperary, who was the
head of the South of Ireland branch of the Lindsay
Clan.
Lord Lindsay, in his *' Lives of the Lindsays
(vol. I., p. 441), says that this branch owes its origin
to John Lindsay who canne over from Scotland early
in the eighteenth century, married the daughter of
Thomas Weekes of Ballinard, and died in 1737. The
family has always displayed the simple Lindsay coat
of arms, a fesse-chequce, argent and azure, with for
crest an ostrich holding a 'key, proper, and for motto,
"Indure Furth," from which Lord Lindsay conjectures
that it may be a branch of the House of Wauchopdale.
The present owner of the Ballinard estate is Paul
Maylor Lindsay of Bridestown, County Cork, and
John Lindsay's grandson.
John Lindsay was educated at one of the Cork
schools, famous in those days, and graduated, after a
distinguished career, in Trinity College, Dublin He
entered the Temple and was called to the Irish Bar,
but having inherited ample means from his father,
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