The son of the fifth earl of Balcarras; educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he went to Ireland as private secretary to the Earl of Hardwick and was made bishop of Kildare in 1804.

REFERENCES TO Charles Dalrymple Lindsay, bishop of Kildare:

Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 14 October 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)