High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wallace Lindsay (1858 21 February 1937) was a Scottish classicist who was Professor of Humanity at St Andrews University.Lindsay was born in Pittenweem, Fife, where his father was a Free Church minister. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford from 1880 to 1899, when he was appointed as Professor of Humanity (as the professorship in Latin was called) at St Andrews University. Lindsay wrote numerous studies, covering a range of topics in Latin from the works of Plautus and Martial to the development of medieval Latin. Some of his books were translated into French and German.