David Clarke Bethune, 11th Earl of Lindsay

David Clarke Bethune, 11th Earl of Lindsay JP DL ( Lindsay; 18 April 1832 – 20 March 1917) was a Scottish aristocrat.

Early life David Clarke Lindsay was born on 18 April 1832. He was the son of David Ayton-Lindsay of Wormiston House and Jane Emilia Ayton. Among his siblings were Emilia Lindsay (wife of Eric Rudd), Elizabeth Lindsay (wife of Edward Cliff), Margaret Lindsay (wife of Archibald Rodan Hogg), and Alexander Monypenny Lindsay, a practising Advocate. He served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Fife.

In 1911, Lord and Lady Lindsay attended the coronation of King George V.

Personal life

On 15 August 1866, he married Emily Marian Jennings ( Crosse) Barnes (1836–1920), a daughter of Robert Crosse of Doctors' Commons, London and widow of Capt. Edmund Charles Barnes. Together, they were the parents of:

Reginald Lindesay-Bethune, 12th Earl of Lindsay (1867–1939), who married Beatrice Mary Shaw, daughter of John Shaw of Welburn Hall, Yorkshire, in 1892. Archibald Lionel Bethune, 13th Earl of Lindsay (1872–1943), who married Ethel Tucker, daughter of William Austin Tucker, in 1900. They divorced in 1906, and then remarried in 1921. Lady Muriel Maud Stuart Bethune (1874–1936), who married Watkin James Yuille Strang Watkins of Shotton Hall, Shropshire, in 1893. After his death in 1921, she married Joseph Alexander Drummond Kirkpatrick, son of Lt.-Col. T. D. Kirkpatrick of Locksley Hall, Torquay, in 1929.

Descendants Through his second son, he was a grandfather of William Lindesay-Bethune, 14th Earl of Lindsay, who married Marjory Cross in 1925 and was the father of four, including David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay.