Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage

Recipient of the Victoria Cross

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1832

Place of Birth: Berkeley Square, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1901

Profession: military personnel, politician

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, (17 April 1832 – 10 June 1901) was a British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, and first chairman and co-founder of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War (later the British Red Cross Society), for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria.