Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879 - 1969), by Max Dupain, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery. 2003.35, gelatin silver photograph, purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AM 2003. .Image Details

LINDSAY FAMILY: PERCIVAL CHARLES (1870-1952), Sir LIONEL ARTHUR (1874-1961), NORMAN ALFRED WILLIAMS (1879-1969), RUBY (1885-1919) and Sir ERNEST DARYL (1889-1976), artists and writers, were born at Creswick, Victoria, five of the ten children of Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915), surgeon from Londonderry, Ireland, and his wife Jane Elizabeth (1848-1932), daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams, Wesleyan missionary. The Lindsay family, originally from Ayrshire, Scotland, had settled in Tyrone in the late seventeenth century and prospered in the linen trade. Robert, after graduating in medicine at the University of Glasgow, sailed as medical officer in the Red Rose and reached Melbourne on 16 June 1864. He began to practise at Creswick and on 18 May 1869 at Ballarat married Jane. The ...

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