Baron Lindsay of Birker, of Low Ground in the County of Cumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1945 for the Scottish

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 academic and educationalist, Sandie Lindsay. His eldest son, the second Baron, was Professor of Far Eastern Studies at the American University

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 in Washington, D.C.

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  the title is held by the latter's only son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1994. He is an Australian citizen and diplomat. Lord Lindsay has notably served as Deputy Australian High Commissioner

High Commissioner

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 to Pakistan

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 and Kenya

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Barons Lindsay of Birker (1945)

• Alexander Dunlop "Sandie" Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker (1879–1952)
• Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker
  Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker
  Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker , was a British peer and academic .Lindsay was the son of Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker and Erica Violet Storr . He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Balliol College Oxford. After Oxford, he became a...
  
   (1909–1994)
• James Francis Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker
  James Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker
  James Francis Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker , is a retired Australian diplomat.-Background and education:Lindsay is the only son of Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, and the grandson of the Scottish academic and educationalist Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker...
  
   (b. 1945)
  • The heir presumptive
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    to the Barony is Alexander Sebastian Lindsay (b. 1940). Alexander's father (Maj Thomas Martin Lindsay) was the brother of 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker