Background
In 1859, Lindley was a young Royal Navy officer stationed in Hong Kong where he became betrothed to Marie, the daughter of the Portuguese consul at Macau.
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In 1859, Lindley was a young Royal Navy officer stationed in Hong Kong where he became betrothed to Marie, the daughter of the Portuguese consul at Macau.
China
In 1860 he resigned his commission, taking a job as the executive officer of a trading steamer smuggling specie to the Taiping reform movement in Shanghai. He accepted a commission from Taiping general Li Xiucheng, and helped train their soldiers in British Army techniques, while Marie became a sniper. After her death, he returned to England.
In 1866, he wrote and published "Ti Ping Tien Kwoh: or the History of the Taiping Revolution" and included a dedication :To Le-Siu-Cheng, the Chung-Wang, "Faithful Prince," Commander-in-Chief of the Ti-Ping forces, this work is dedicated if he be living.
And if not, to his memory. Battle of Jofoolzo—commanding Taiping‘s warships
Foreign merit Lindley was promoted colonel by the Taiping.
General Gordon
When Charles George Gordon returned to the United Kingdom, Lindley publicly castigated Gordon in the pages of The Times. South Africa
In 1868, Lindley - with Roger Pocklington, the American brothers Will and Tom Ashwell, and Louis de Glon of Switzerland - landed at Durban to undertake a gold-hunting expedition in the Transvaal.
While no gold was found, the group travelled extensively among the Boer and the various black communities, and encounterd many adventures.
Pocklington married a Potchefstroom girl, and settled there. Lindley returned to England, where he wrote "After Ophir, or, A Search Foreign the South African Gold Fields".