Lindsay, Sandy

Sandy Lindsay
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Name	Lindsay, Sandy Gender: M
Birthname	Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
born on	14 May 1879 at 20:05 (= 8:05 PM )
Place	Glasgow, Scotland, 55n53, 4w15
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Wright
Astrology data	23°37' 13°22 Asc. 22°17'

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Biography

Sandy Lindsay won the Shaw fellowship in moral philosophy at Edinburgh University in 1903, as had his father, the first recipient of this award. He was assistant lecturer in philosophy at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1904–1906, when he was elected a fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford.

During the First World War he served in France, was mentioned twice in dispatches, and was a Lieutenant-colonel.

He was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1922–24) and was Master 1924-49. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1924 to 1925. In 1924 he became master of Balliol College and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1935-38. He worked with Lord Nuffield who donated £1m to fund a new physical chemistry laboratory and a postgraduate college for social studies, Nuffield College, Oxford in 1937.

At Oxford, Lindsay was a leading figure in the adult education movement. On his retirement from Balliol, Lindsay was appointed the first Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire which opened in 1949 and is now Keele University.

Lindsay was a socialist and was regarded as a dangerous revolutionary by many of his colleagues at Oxford. In 1938, he stood for Parliament in the Oxford by-election as an 'Independent Progressive' on the single issue of opposition to the Munich Agreement, with support from the Labour and Liberal parties as well as from many Conservatives including the future Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, but lost to the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg. Today Lindsay would be regarded as a left-wing liberal.

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Relationships

• (has as) student relationship with Heath, Edward (born 9 July 1916). Notes: Heath clained that Lindsay had more influence on him at Oxford than anyone else

Events

• Work : New Career 1922 (Appointed Master of Glasgow University)

• Work : New Job 1924 (Appointed Master of Balliol College Oxford)

• Work : New Job 1935 (Appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University)

• Work : Lose social status 27 October 1938 in Oxford (Failed to win an election to Parliament)
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• Work : Retired 1949 (As Master of Balliol College Oxford)

• Death, Cause unspecified 18 March 1952
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Source Notes

Paul Wright quotes birth record

Categories

• Vocation : Education : Administrator (Master of Glasgow University, Balliol Oxford and Vice Chancellor Oxford University)

• Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of Moral Philosophy)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Philosopher

• Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost (Oxford By-election)

• Notable : Awards : Other Awards (Created Baron)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession