A CLAIM TO AN EARLDOM.
BA AN EX-STATION MANAGER. Melbourne, January 17. ' Air. Bethune Lindsay, formerly a station overseer residing at Albert Park, claims to be the rightful Lari of Lindsay, and head of the famous Scottish family. He declares that he is identical with Henry James Hamilton, who is stated in ‘Burke’s Peerage’ to have been born in 1834, and to have died at Marseilles in 1862. The present Earl is a cousin and the claimant in 1910. Lindsay married the widow of John Close, of South Africa, and sails in March to claim V;e earldom.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 17 January 1913, Page 5
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97A CLAIM TO AN EARLDOM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 17 January 1913, Page 5
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