R. W. Lindsay, Esq.
(1836-1917)
5 March 1861

Volume 2, page 261, sitting number 2333.

Robert W. Lindsay appears on the 1861 census at 28 Nottingham Place, Marylebone [London], a 25-year-old copper manufacturer born at Swansea in Glamorgan, living with his sister and mother at the home of his 91-year-old great-aunt, Miss Mary Webber.

The same man, this time fully identified as Robert Webber Lindsay, appears on the 1901 census, living at 'The Red House,' Church Street, Barford, Warwickshire. A bachelor living with two servants (a cook and a housemaid), he described himself as 'Living on [his] own means.'

A photograph dated to circa 1853 in the library of Swansea Museum, possibly by Captain Augustus Lennox, shows the sitter when a little younger, identified as Webber Lindsay, taking tea with Miss Dulcie Eden. Another photograph in the same depository, this one by John Dillwyn Llewelyn, shows him around the same time, seated with his arm resting on a globe.

He died, aged 81, on 2 April 1917 at the Red House in Barford. He left an estate valued at £15,156. 

A short article about his will and the disposal of his estate that appeared in the Coventry Evening Telegraph (5 September 1917) described him as 'a native of Glanafon, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, for some years manager in Birmingham of the Tube Works of Messrs H.H. Vivian and Co, Ltd.'