High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baronet, CBE, DSO (22 August 1905 ? 5 May 1981) was a British army officer and explorer. He came to fame in the 1930s leading a succession of expeditions to Greenland, and later went into politics; he was elected as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament after the Second World War. Lindsay was from a long-established Scottish noble family and traced his own descent as 22nd in line to Sir William Lindsay who was created Lord Lindsay of Crawford in 1398. His own father was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, who sent his son to Wellington College.