He acquired Beaufort and part of Aird from David Lindsay of Lethnot whose mother was a daughter and one of the four heiresses of Walter Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort. He acted as deputy-sheriff of Aberdeenshire and Forfar.
He married Isabel, daughter of WIlliam Levingtoun of Saltcoats.[1][2] They had issue:
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8
MacGregor, Gordon, The Red Book of Scotland, Scotland, private, 2022, Ed. 3, Vol. V, p. 1055
↑ 2.02.12.22.3Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org,
pp. 18-19
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.4Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org,
p. 20
↑Rogers, Charles, Life of George Wishart, the Scottish Martyr, London: private, 1876, Archive.org,
p. 79
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Lindsay-1583 and Lindsay-1465 appear to represent the same person because: I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WALTER LINDSAY IS THE 8TH EARL OF CRAWFORD. THE 8TH EARL IS THE ONE WHOSE TRIED TO KILL HIM, SO HE MADE THE 9TH EARL HIS COUSIN. IN TURN THE 10TH EARL WAS THE GRANDSON OF THE 8TH EARL OF CRAWFORD, AND IT WASN'T WALTER. THANKS
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