GODFREY, Ernest H. The Lindesays of Loughrey County Tyrone. A genealogical history. Illustrated and with large folding genealogical chart.

London: Greaves, 1949. Octavo. pp. 120, [1]. Four page errata loosely inserted. Original quarter blue linen on white linen boards, titled in blue. Ex lib with neat circular stamps. A very good copy. Rare.

Lindesays of Loughry, County Tyrone, trace their ancestry back to Thomas Lindsay of Kingswark (d.1607) in Leith, Scotland. Robert Lindsay [Lindesay], (1679-1743), lawyer, was the elder of two sons of Robert Lindsay of Loughry, Co. Tyrone, and his wife, Anne Lindsay, daughter of John Morris of Bellville, Co. Tyrone. He succeeded to the Co. Tyrone estate of his father on the latter’s death in 1691. He was educated at Drogheda and entered TCD in 1696, graduating BA in 1700. He entered the Middle Temple in London in 1703 and was called to the Irish bar in 1709. He became a friend of Jonathan Swift, who conspicuously excepted Lindsay from his general disdain for lawyers. It was probably on Swift’s recommendation that he became counsel to the proctor of St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, in 1722, and seneschal (or legal adviser) to the cathedral in 1724. Swift may also have introduced him to Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), to whom Lindsay gave legal advice. Two of Swift’s Drapier’s Letters in 1724, addressed to the Chief Justice William Whitshed (1679–1727), may reflect the legal knowledge of Lindsay, though the attribution of the letters to him is not accepted by all authorities.

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