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James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay (1554-1601), Scottish landowner.
James Lindsay was the son of Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay and Euphemia Douglas, daughter of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven and Margaret Erskine.
Lindsay was a gentleman of King James's bedchamber.
He married Eupheme Leslie in 1573, a daughter of Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes and Grissel Hamilton.
He was an active Protestant, writing to Elizabeth I of England in favour of the Puritan preacher John Udall. In 1592 the printer Robert Waldegrave dedicated an edition of Dudley Fenner's Certain Godly and Learned Treatises to him. In January 1593 he led a group protesting at Holyrood Palace against the Catholic earls.
On 17 December 1596 he was involved in a riot at the Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh against the Octavians which was declared treason. His property was forfeited.