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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 was educated at Eaton and Sandhurst.
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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 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 Scottish politician and leader of the British Liberal Party.
Sinclair's granddaughter Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, is also a Liberal Democrat politician.
Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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 Where can I find Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso information?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT CMG PC (October 22, 1890 – June 15, 1970), familiar as Sir Archibald Sinclair from 1912 1952, was a Scottish politician 'n leader of the British Liberal Party.
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Sinclair's granddaughter Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, is in advance with a Liberal Democrat politician.
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 Churchill, Winston
Churchill lost his Manchester seat to the Conservative William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford, but was soon elected in another by-election at Dundee.
This was the first state funeral for a non-royal family member since that of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar in 1914, and was staged at the queen's own request.
The major influences on his historical thought, and his prose style, were Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's history of the English Civil War, Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Macaulay's History of England.
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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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 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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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (T)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mary (Palmer), Marchioness of Thomond (1751-1820), Wife of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond.
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890-1970), Politician.
George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy (1909-1997), Speaker of the House of Commons.
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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, 2 August, 2004, between, the Hon Vere George Boscawen (b.1964, fourth and youngest son of the 9th Viscount Falmouth, and Viscountess Falmouth) and Elizabeth A. Pryor (daughter of the late Richard Pryor, and Mrs John Rymer-Jones).
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 Scottish Political Timeline 1918 - 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland), later 1st Viscount Thurso is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in the National Government.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, later first Viscount Thurso (Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland) becomes Liberal leader in the House of Commons.
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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 Sinclair :: Systems
Planet Sinclair - Provides details of Sinclair's products from the 1960s to the present day, with a wide range of additional information about Sinclair software houses, personalities, magazines, and of course Sir Clive himself.
Sinclair Archaeology - Details of Enrico Tedeschi's comprehensive collection of Sinclair memorabilia, dating back more than 40 years.
Sinclair Nostalgia Products - Site provides snapshots, MIDI files, screen savers, counter digits and information about a lot of hard-to-find clones of the Sinclair machines, focusing particularly on those from Eastern Europe and Russia.
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 THURSO - Online Information article about THURSO
It is situated at the mouth of the Thurso, on Thurso See also:
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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 Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (then Sir Archibald Sinclair) (October 22 1890-June 15 1970) was leader of the UK Liberal Party from 1935 until 1945.
Sinclair served on the Western Front during the First World War and rose to the rank of Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment.
There was speculation that he might return to the Commons and the leadership, but he was unsuccessful in his attempt to re-enter Parliament in 1950.
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 thePeerage.com - nil and others
George Henry MacDonald Sinclair is the son of John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso and Marion Ticknor Sage.
Louisa Ticknor Beaumont Sinclair is the daughter of John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso and Marion Ticknor Sage.
She married Sir Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard, son of Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard and Katherine Isabel Salvin Bowlby, on 19 June 1948.
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 sinclair intimacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Christopher A. Sinclair, former CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Co.
Intimacy can also be identified as knowing someone in depth, knowing many different aspects of a person or knowing how they would respond in different situations, because of the many experiences you've had with them.
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 Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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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 Magazines Thurso at Local.co.uk
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 Category:Peers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Julian H.G. Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
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 Caithness CWS - Community - Political and Government - Robert MacLennan MP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Thurso Page at They Work For Us Lord Thurso was born 10th September 1953, the eldest son of Robin Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso and Margaret Robertson.
He is the grandson of the 1st Viscount Thurso, better known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, the wartime Liberal leader and Secretary of State for Air.
Following the passage of the House of Lords Bill, Lord Thurso chose not to stand for a hereditary place, where he was Liberal Democrat Front Bench spokesman for Tourism from 1997-1999 and Food 1999.
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 Brora, Sutherland, Scotland
Title is 3rd Viscount Thurso, grandson of the first Viscount, Sir Archibald Sinclair, a one time leader of the Liberal Party and Secretary of State for Scotland.
His grandson, the 3rd Viscount, was born in 1953 and is married with a daughter and two sons.
Lord Thurso stood for parliament in 2001, inheriting the seat of Robert Maclennan, who is now a member of the House of Lords as Baron Maclennan of Rogart.
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 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As stated by Sir Robert Gordon, William Sutherland of Duffus was by instigation of the Bishop of Caithness killed by the Clan Gunn at Thurso in 1530.
On 30 June 1703 he was created Duke of Athole, Marquis of Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount Balquhidder, Glenalmond, and Glenlyon, and Lord Murray, Balveny and Gask, with remainder of male issue, to the sons of his deceased father.
He was made secretary of state by King William in 1695, and appointed one of the privy council to Queen Anne in 1702.
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 Clement Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During World War II he was chairman of the All Party Action Group that played a significant role in forcing the resignation of Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.
Despite having left it for a decade and with lingering suspicions that his commitment to Liberalism was less then full, Davies became leader of the Liberal Party in 1945 after Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso lost his seat in the electoral debacle that reduced the Liberals to 12 seats.
His first general election as party leader in 1950 reduced the party to 9 seats with barely 9% of the vote and the UK general election, 1951 and UK general election, 1955 elections reduced the Liberals to only six seats.
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Sinclair, Sir Keith (1922-93) Historian and author, born in Auckland, New Zealand.
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 Chartwell Booksellers: The World's Only Winston Churchill Bookshop. Also home to the Military Bookman. (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a very good 1st English Edition set INSCRIBED in ink on first free endpaper of Volume 1: "John Burns from Winston S. Churchill, 30 Jan. 1906" (the month of publication).
This is a 1st American Edition Presentation set, without dust jackets, in exceptionally fine condition.
This is a very good copy of the 1st English "Revised" Edition/2nd Impression, INSCRIBED in ink on the half-title: "To Captain A.C. Loraine, from Winston S. Churchill, Jan. 1942." The wartime issue of Churchill's "Revised Edition" it contains the four additional profiles: Lord Fisher, Stuart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and FDR.
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Angus mac Fergus, King of the Picts, defeats the army of Athelstane, King of Northumbria and the Saltire, the future flag of Scotland, is seen in the clouds.
Loss of 600 Sinclairs including George Sinclair of Keiss, Henry 3rd Lord Sinclair, The Bishop of Caithness as well as King James IV of Scotland.
John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness dies in battle with 500 between Sinclairs of Caithness and Sinclairs of Orkney led by James Sinclair.
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 Sinclair, Gas & Oil at Antiques Collectibles
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Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981) Trained in medicine, graduating from Glasgow in 1919, but gave this up to become an author.
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