LINDSAY, THOMAS [SSNE 3989]

Surname

LINDSAY

First name

THOMAS

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Region

LEITH, EDINBURGH

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Captain Thomas Lindsay was an army captain from Leith who served in Britain, Holland and Venice. In 1632 he came to Moscow with a recommendation to the Tsar and Patriarch Filaret from King Charles I, but was not accepted with the explanation that all officers' posts in regiments of "foreign order" were filled. However, on 9 July 1635 he was granted permission to raise 200 men in Scotland for overseas service.

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 2nd Series, VI, , p.45, 9 July 1635; G. P. Herd, 'General Patrick Gordon of Auchluchries - A Scot in Seventeenth Century Russian Service', Ph.D. thesis, Aberdeen, 1994; D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996).

Service record

SCOTLAND, RUSSIA [MOSCOW]

Arrived 1632-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1632-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity UNEMPLOYED, purpose MILITARY