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  Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso - Americola, the celebrity encyclopedia
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT CMG PC (October 22 1890 – June 15 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, 4th Baronet from 1912 until 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a Scottish politician and leader of the British Liberal Party.
Sinclair and the Liberal leader, Sir Herbert Samuel, were thus the last Liberal politicians to sit in the Cabinet.
Sinclair was one of the largest landowners in the United Kingdom, owning an estate of about 100,000 acres in Caithness.
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  Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT CMG PC (October 22, 1890–June 15, 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair from 1912 until 1952, was a British politician and leader of the UK Liberal Party.
Sinclair and the Liberal leader, Sir Herbert Samuel, were thus the last Liberal politicians to sit in the Cabinet.
At the 1950 general election Sinclair again stood for his old seat and moved to second place, but in yet another close election, he was 269 votes away from victory.
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 Sir Archibald Henry MacDonald Sinclair (1890-1970)
Sir Archibald Henry MacDonald Sinclair 1st Baronet of Ulbster, Caithness and 1st Viscount Thurso was born in London on 22 October 1890 the only son of Clarence Granville Sinclair and his wife Marbel, daughter of wealthy New York businessman Mahlon Sands.
Archibald Sinclair in 1935 was party chairman of the Liberal party.
Sinclair thought it wise not to explain the nature of the bombing offensive too frankly in public, in case [it] was stirred up on grounds of moral conscience and the morale of the bomber crews affected.
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 Viscount Thurso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscount Thurso, of Ulbster in the County of Caithness, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1952 for the Scottish Liberal politician Sir Archibald Sinclair, 4th Baronet, of Ulbster.
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890-1970)
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Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890-1970), Politician.
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 Battle of Britain Group - Sir Archibald Sinclair
Sinclair was a bit of a daredevil and this led him to learn to fly a primitive aircraft, which he would go up in before breakfast.
Sinclair was able to play a prominent part in debates for three years until fate intervened and he spent the remainder of his life as an invalid.
Sir Archibald Sinclair enjoyed the world of politics but did not live for it, he had a happy private life in the company of his wife and children and enjoyed grouse shooting, salmon fishing and playing polo.
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 Dundonald - Dysart | British History Online
In the north wall of the choir is a tablet to Thomas Bisset, commissary of Dunkeld; and in the south aisle is the monument of Bishop Cardney, on which is his effigy in a recumbent posture, under a crocketed canopy.
The statue of Bishop Sinclair, of which the head has been broken off, is in one of the aisles; and within the walls are also tombstones of the Dean of Dunkeld in 1476, and the rector of Monedie in 1548.
In 1764, William Sinclair, Esq., of Freswick, bequeathed an annuity of £5.
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 Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso - Gurupedia
In 1922 he entered the House of Commons as a Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland supporting David Lloyd George, defeating the incumbant supporter of Herbert Henry Asquith.
With the party now clearly marginalised as a third party on the fringe, he fought to rebuild it, taking up the issues of opposition to the continental dictatorships and working worked closely with Winston Churchill who was a backbencher at that time and generally shunned by his Conservative Party.
John Thurso entered politics and now sits as MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.
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 thePeerage.com - Violet Gloria Sybil Fane and others
She married Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard of Barnard's Castle, son of Sir Henry Morgan Vane and Louisa Farrer, on 28 June 1881 in St.
He was the son of Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso and Marigold Forbes.
She married Robin Macdonald Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso, son of Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso and Marigold Forbes, on 14 February 1952.
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 thePeerage.com - Colonel Josiah James Robertson and others
Camilla Janet Sinclair was the daughter of Robin Macdonald Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso and Margaret Beaumont Robertson.
Angus John Sinclair, son of Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso and Marigold Forbes, on 26 February 1955.
She is the daughter of Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso and Marigold Forbes.
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 Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As a lieutenant he served alongside Winston Churchill, forming a lasting friendship that would become a political alliance in later decades.
In 1922 he entered the House of Commons as a Liberal MP for Caithness & Sutherland supporting David Lloyd George, defeating the incumbant Liberal supporter of Herbert Henry Asquith.
In the 1990s, his grandson, John Thurso entered politics and now sits as MP for Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross.
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 Scottish Political Timeline 1918 - 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ramsay MacDonald goes twice to Buckingham Palace to resign as Prime Minister but is persuaded by King George V to form a National Government backed by the Tory and Liberal leaders Stanley Baldwin and Sir Herbert Samuel.
Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland), later 1st Viscount Thurso is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in the National Government.
Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay (Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles, Southern) who had expressed anti-semitic opinions, is arrested along with Sir Oswald Mosley, and 32 other leading British fascists and detained under Defence Regulation 18B.
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 Septs of Clan Campbell
In 1550, Archibald, Master of Argyll, later the 5th Earl, granted the keepership of the castle together with the twenty seven merklands that went with it to Colin Campbell of Ardkinglas for the service of two boats.
In 1571, Archibald, by then 5th Earl, granted the castle acre and the office of Baillie to Archibald Campbell, a cadet of the Ardkinglas family, as Captain of the Castle of Dunoon.
It is just possible, if Archibald had not married the Uchiltree heiress, that the Uchiltrees changed their name to Campbell and continued on in Kildalvan until the end of the eighteenth century at least.
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 James I Descendants News, 2004
Archibald Charles Ian Fraser and his wife, née [Rosalind] Henrietta Mays-Smith, had their third child, Tatiana Flora Sibyl, on 27 April, a sister for Hamish (b.?), and Emily Jennifer Alice, who was b.
Presumably this is the grandson of the 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, born 25 July, 1914 (son of the PM's second son, Herbert, who married Lady Cynthia Charteris, daughter of the 11th Earl of Wemyss).
The engagement was announced 27 April, 2004, between Henry Hughes (son of Mr and Mrs Michael Hughes, of Sedgehill Manor, Shaftesbury, Dorset) and Poppy Augusta Fraser (b.1979, daughter of the Hon.Hugh Alastair Joseph Fraser (b.
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 Scottish Surnames, Sanders to Symington.
Sinclair, Sir Archibald Henry MacDonald, 1st Viscount Thurso of Ulbster (1890-1970) Leader of the Liberal Party (1935-45), Secretary of State for Air in the Churchill Administration (1940-45).
Sinclair, Robert J., 1st Baron of Cleeve (1893-) educ.
Some derive their names as well as their arms from some considerable action, and thus a son of Struan Robertson, for killing a wolf in Stocket forest in Athole, in the king's presence, with a dirk, received the name of Skene, which signifies a dirk, and three dirks points in pale, for his arms.
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 Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sinclair (1890-1970, 4th Baronet of Ulbster, 1912, and 1st Viscount Thurso, created 1952) was educated at Eton and Sandhurst.
He began his career in the army, and after the war he became personal military secretary to Churchill, who was Secretary of State for War (1919-21) and Secretary of State for Colonies (1921-22).
He was also lord rector of Glasgow University (1938-45), president of the Eighty Club (1953-68) and of the Scottish Liberal Party.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 9   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Archibald C Montagu Brabazon, Earl of Gosford 5th Acheson, b.
Archibald Henry Algernon, Duke of Somerset 13th St.Maur, b.
Archibald the Grim, Earl of Douglas 3rd Douglas, b.
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 THURSO - Online Information article about THURSO
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Thurso was the centre of the Norse See also:
time at Thurso and despoiled it till he was surprised and slain by Thorfinn in 1040.
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 one of Sir John's decendants
John S. Quarterman
Fulfilling his role as the R.A.F.'s political representative, Sinclair thought it wise not to explain the nature of the bombing offensive too frankly in public, in case [it] was stirred up on grounds of moral conscience and the morale of the bomber crews affected.
Prev by thread: Re: Sinclair and the holly blood
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 87
Sinclair, George Philips Alexander, Earl of Caithness 15th, b.
Sinclair, Malcolm Ian, Earl of Caithness 20th, b.
Sinclair, William of Orkney and Caithness, Earl of OrkneyandCaithness3
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