CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES, EARL OF
- CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES, EARL OF
better known as Lord Lindsay, and as the author of "Letters from the Holy Land," "Progression by Antagonism," and "Sketches of the History of Christian Art"; died at Florence, and was entombed at Dunecht, whence his body was abstracted and found again in a wood near by after a seven months' search (1812-1880).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.
James Wood.
1907.
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