OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 July 1924, Page 7

OBITUARY.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL W. 5 LINDSAY.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay, who passed to his rest on Saturday, at 1 is home, in Timaru, was born in January,. 1849. He was a son of the late Mr William Schaw Lindsay, of Sliepperton, Middlesex, who was at one time ope of the directors of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company. The late Colonel .Lindsay arrived in New Zealand in 1876, and first accepted a position with one of the auctioneering firms in Dunedin.' A "year or two later, lie came to Timaru, and lias since lived here. He was in the early davs in the office of Mr M. J. Godly, solicitoi, for some time, and since leaving that employment ho has lived retired.

Deceased was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and had travelled extensively. He saw military service i n several occasions before coming to New Zealand, and took a keen interest in voluntc-ring after his arrival in Timaru. He was one of the original members of the, Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, in which regiment he attained the rank of Major, and afterwards the brevet innk of Lieutenant-Colonel. At rho time of the South African War ho rendered good service in training ,lie New Zealand Rough Riders. He was a trues sportsman in every sense of the word, and was the first secretary for the Now Zealand Grand National, when that important event used to be in Timaru. Taking a keen interest in hunting Mr Lindsay was for a time Master of the South Canterbury Hunt. He took a close interest in all out-door sports, and was oho of the official time-keepers for the South Canterbury Jockey Club, the South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club, the South Canterbury Caledonian Society, and other sports clubs in the district.

Mr Lindsay was a man who read a great deal and was an authority on all kinds of sport. Most of his contemporary friends has predeceased him," but those who remain, retain pleasant lecollections of his strong personality and of his outspoken and fearless criticism of anything which he considered was not . up to the proper standard. Of a generous disposition, ho made many handsome donations to various sports bodies, and privately lie was also very liberal. He was twice married —first to Miss Tngram, by whom he had one son, Mr Herbert Lindsay, who is in England; and his second marriage was with Miss Ada O’Brien, of Dunedin, by whom he had six children, of whom four sons are surviving—Colonel M. E. Lindsay, who is in Scotland, Mr Pat Lindsay,_ of Sydney, Mr R. 0. Lindsay, who is in England, and Mr A. S. Lindsay, if Ch ristchurch. The deceased’s late wife followed her husband’s footsteps in the matter of sport, and prior to her death was -..he presiding genius at the Timaru Ladies’ Golf Club, one of the holes on ihe Highfiold links, “Lindsay’s’’ being named after her, as is also the “Lindsay Medal,’’ being one of the annual competitions of the Highfield Goii Club. .

The remains of the deceased will leave bis late residence, LeCren’s Terrace, at 2.30 p.m. to-day, for the Tim; oemeterv.