Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker Commander of the Order of the British Empire, known as Sandie Lindsay, was a British academic and peer.
Background
The son of the Review Thomas Martin Lindsay (1845–1914) by his marriage to Anna Dunlop (1845–1903), Lindsay was educated from 1887 at the Glasgow Academy, then at the University of Glasgow, where he gained a Master of Arts degree in 1899, and lastly at University College, Oxford, where he took a Double First in 1902. In 1903 he won the Shaw fellowship in moral philosophy at Edinburgh University, as had his father, the first recipient of this award.
Education
University of Glasgow. University College.
Career
He was assistant lecturer in philosophy at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1904–1906, when he was elected a fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. During the First World War he served in France, was mentioned twice in dispatches, and was a Lieutenant-colonel. He was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1922-1924).
He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1924 to 1925.
In 1924 he became master of Balliol College and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1935-1938. He worked with Lord Nuffield who donated £1m to fund a new physical chemistry laboratory and a postgraduate college for social studies, Nuffield College, Oxford in 1937.
At Oxford, Lindsay was a leading figure in the adult education movement. On his retirement from Balliol, in 1949, Lindsay was appointed the first Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire which opened in 1949 and is now Keele University.
In 1938, Lindsay stood for Parliament in the Oxford by-election as an "Independent Progressive" on the single issue of opposition to the Munich Agreement, with support from the Labour and Liberal parties as well as from many Conservatives including the future Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, but lost to the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg.
Views
Mill"s Utilitarianism, Liberty & Representative Government with an Introduction by A Doctorate Lindsay (1914).