Reginald Lindesay-Bethune, 12th Earl of Lindsay
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Reginald Lindesay-Bethune, 12th Earl of Lindsay JP
Justice of the Peace
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 DL
Lord Lieutenant
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 (18 May 1867 - 14 January 1939) was a Scottish nobleman.

The eldest son of the 11th Earl of Lindsay and Emily Marian Crosse, he succeeded his father in 1917, and assumed the additional surname of Lindesay in 1919. A Major in the 8th Hussars, he served in South Africa in 1901-1902.

He was unsuccessful Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
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 parliamentary candidate for Buckrose
Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)
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, East Yorkshire, in 1906. He was a Scottish representative peer
Representative peer
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 from 1917

He was formerly Master of Fife Fox Hounds.
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