Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage

Politician

1832 – 1901

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Who was Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage?

Brigadier-General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC KCB was a British soldier, politician, benefactor to Wantage, one of the founders of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War latterly called the British Red Cross Society, for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria, and a distinguished philanthropist and luminary of Victorian society.

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Born
Apr 17, 1832
Berkeley Square
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Eton College
Died
Jun 10, 1901
Wantage

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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