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{{Short description|Scottish peer (born 1955)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Earl of Lindsay
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DL}}
| image            = Official portrait of The Earl of Lindsay crop 2.jpg
| office           = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland]]
| primeminister    = [[John Major]]
| term_start       = 6 July 1995
| term_end         = 2 May 1997
| predecessor      = [[Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm|Sir Hector Monro]]
| successor        = [[Sam Galbraith]]
| office1          = [[Lord-in-waiting]]<br />[[Government Whip]]
| primeminister1   = [[John Major]]
| term_start1      = 12 January 1995
| term_end1        = 6 July 1995
| predecessor1     = [[Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood|The Lord Inglewood]]
| successor1       = [[Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown|The Earl of Courtown]]
| office2          = Member of the [[House of Lords]]
| status2          = Lord Temporal
| term_label2      = as a [[hereditary peer]]
| term_start2      = 21 December 1989
| term_end2        = 11 November 1999
| predecessor2     = [[David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay|The 15th Earl of Lindsay]]
| successor2       = ''[[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat abolished]]''
| term_label3      = as an [[List of excepted hereditary peers|elected hereditary peer]]
| term_start3      = 11 November 1999
| term_end3        = present
| predecessor3     = ''[[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat established]]''
| successor3       =
| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1955|11|19|df=y}}
| birth_place      =
| nationality      = British
| alma_mater       = [[University of Edinburgh]]<br/>[[University of California, Davis]]
| spouse           = {{marriage|Diana Chamberlayne-Macdonald|1982}}
| children         = Lady Frances Lindesay-Bethune <br /> Lady Alexandra Coleman <br /> William Lindesay-Bethune, Viscount of Garnock <br /> Hon. David Lindesay-Bethune <br /> Charlotte, Duchess of Noto
| father           = [[David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay]]
| mother           = Hon. Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu
}}
'''James Randolph Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|DL}} (born 19 November 1955), is a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] businessman and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.
==Early life==
The son of [[David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay]], and his first wife Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu, he was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]], the [[University of Edinburgh]] and the [[University of California, Davis]].
==Career==
He succeeded his father as [[Earl of Lindsay]] in 1989. He was vice-chairman of the Inter-Party Union Committee on Environment 1994–95, and was Parliamentary [[Under-Secretary of State for Scotland]] from 1995 to 1997, during which time he was responsible for agriculture, fisheries and the environment. His work has been involved with the environment and the food industry. Between 2012 and 2017, Lord Lindsay was President of the [[National Trust of Scotland]] and appointed President of the [[Chartered Trading Standards Institute]] in April 2021.<ref>[https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy/news-room/2021/ctsi-appoints-the-earl-of-lindsay-as-president CTSI appoints the Earl of Lindsay as President]. Accessed: 13 April 2021.</ref>
==Personal life==
In 1982 he married Diana Mary Chamberlayne-Macdonald, a granddaughter of Sir Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville [[Macdonald of Sleat]], [[Baron Macdonald#Macdonald baronets, of Sleat (1625); continued after 1832|16th Baronet]]; the two have five children:
* Lady Frances Mary Lindesay-Bethune (born 1986), married to Rostislav Gabinsky. They have a son, Alexander Fabian (born 2018).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rhodes|first=Michael|date=2018-09-04|title=Peerage News: Alexander Fabian Gabinsky (born 2018)|url=https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2018/09/alexander-fabian-gabinsky-born-2018.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Peerage News}}</ref>
* Lady Alexandra Penelope Lindesay-Bethune (born 1988), married to Jack Coleman. They have two sons: Nicholas Tankerville Wallace (born 2019) and James Horatio Somerled (born 2021).
* William James Lindesay-Bethune, Viscount of Garnock, Master of Lindsay (b. 30 December 1990), engaged to [[Lady Violet Manners]]
* The Hon. David Nigel Lindesay-Bethune (born 1993)
* Lady Charlotte Lindesay-Bethune (born 1993), married to [[Prince Jaime, Duke of Noto]], eldest child of [[Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria]], on 25 September 2021 at [[Monreale Cathedral]], [[Palermo]]. The couple has a daughter named Francesca Sofía.<ref>[https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/casas-reales/2023-10-23/duques-noto-padres-primera-hija-francesca-sofia_3759881/ Los duques de Noto, padres de su primera hija: el nombre de la nueva princesa Borbón-Dos Sicilias]</ref>
The Countess of Lindsay is a patroness of the [[Royal Caledonian Ball]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Patronesses|url=http://www.royalcaledonianball.com/ball_details/patronesses|publisher=Royal Caledonian Ball|access-date=11 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014035226/http://www.royalcaledonianball.com/ball_details/patronesses|archive-date=14 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a master of the Fife Foxhounds.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aristocrat Countess of Lindsay strips off for fox hunt fund|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/440230/Aristocrat-Countess-of-Lindsay-strips-off-for-fox-hunt-fund|newspaper=Daily Express|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref>
==Arms==
{{Emblem table
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg|150px|center]]<br/>[[File:Arms of Earl of Lindsay (11th Earl).svg|180px|center]]
|crest = A swan with wings expanded proper.
|coronet = The [[coronet]] of an [[Earl]]
|escutcheon = ''Quarterly, 1st & 4th: Gules, a fess chequy Azure and Argent, in chief three mullets of the second''(Lindsay)''; 2nd & 3rd: counter-quartered, 1st & 4th: Azure, a fess between three lozenges Or ''(Bethune)''; 2nd & 3rd: Argent, on a chevron Sable, an otter's head erased of the first ''(Balfour) ''all within a bordure embattled Or''.
|supporters = On both dexter and sinister, a griffin Gules, armed and legged Or
|motto = Above the crest: ''Je ayme'' ([[French language|French]]: "I love") <br/>Below shield: "Live but Dreid"
}}
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-james-lindesay-bethune | the Earl of Lindsay }}
*[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/earl-of-lindsay/2059 Profile] on [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliament.uk]]
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