# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-lindsay-26th-earl-of-crawford
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:36:40.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-lindsay-26th-earl-of-crawford"
name: "James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford"
slug: "james-lindsay-26th-earl-of-crawford"
description: "James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres, KT, FRS, FRAS was a Scottish astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile, and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. He was a prominent Freemason, having been initiated into Isaac Newton University Lodge at the University of Cambridge in 1866."
tagline: "British politician, astronomer, ornithologist, bibliophile and philatelist. (1847-1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lord_Lindsay_-_Earl_of_Crawford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-07-28"
deathDate: "1913-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.413968000000001
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Линдси, Джеймс, 26-й граф Кроуфорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس ليندسي، إيرل كراوفورد ال26"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس ليندسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindsay%2C_26._Earl_of_Crawford"
    title: "James Lindsay, 26. Earl of Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindsay%2C_26th_Earl_of_Crawford"
    title: "James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ludovic_Lindsay"
    title: "James Ludovic Lindsay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindsay%2C_XXVI_conte_di_Crawford"
    title: "James Lindsay, XXVI conte di Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC_(%E7%AC%AC26%E4%BB%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E4%BC%AF%E7%88%B5)"
    title: "ジェイムズ・リンジー (第26代クロフォード伯爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump