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	Sir William Sinclair - LoveToKnow 1911
		Sir William took part in the dispute over the succession to the crown of Scotland in 1292, and was one of the leaders of the Scots in their revolt against Edward I.
		He had two sons, John Sinclair (1683-1750) the Jacobite, and James Sinclair, who became a general in the British army, and was also ambassador at Vienna and Turin and a member of parliament for many years.
		After the attainder of John, in consequence of his share in the rising of 1715, the family estates were settled on James, but he resigned them to his elder brother when the latter was pardoned in 1726.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_William_Sinclair (983 words)

	Sir John, Bart Sinclair - LoveToKnow 1911
		Sir John Sinclair, who was created a baronet in 1780, was twice married, first to a daughter of Alexander Maitland, by whom he had two daughters, and secondly to Diana, daughter of the first lord Macdonald, by whom he had thirteen children.
		His son, Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, the 3rd baronet, was member for the same constituency from 1869 to 1885.
		The first baronet's third son, John (1797-1875), became archdeacon of Middlesex; the fifth son, William (1804-1878), was prebendary of Chichester and was the father of William Macdonald Sinclair (b.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_John,_Bart_Sinclair (390 words)

	Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (May 10 1754 – December 21 1835) Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.
		Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and was born at Thurso Castle, Thurso, Caithness.
		Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first president.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sir_John_Sinclair (793 words)

	Sir John Sinclair
		Sir John was born at Thurso Castle, in the county of Caithness, on the 10
		Sir John once more interposed to establish the system of licensing country bankers, but was again defeated, through the selfishness of those whose interests were bound up in the old system of unlimited banking.
		Sir John’s post was Aberdeen, in command of the encampment raised there in 1791, for the purpose of defending the town against the threatened invasion from Holland.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/sinclair_john.htm (7605 words)

	Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and was born at Thurso Castle, Thurso, Caithness.
		Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first president.
		Sir John Sinclair, who was created a baronet in 1780, was twice married, first to a daughter of Alexander Maitland, by whom he had two daughters, and secondly to Diana, daughter of the first Lord Macdonald, by whom he had thirteen children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_John_Sinclair (764 words)

	Caithness CWS - Community - Museums - North Highland Archive - Caithness Law Cases No 2
		Petition of Sir John Sinclair of Mey, Baronet.
		Duplies for Sir John Sinclair of Mey, Baronet and William Sinclair of Ratter to the Replies of Captain John Sinclair.
		Petition of Sir John Sinclair of Mey, Baronet, and William Sinclair of Ratter.
	www.caithness.org /community/museums/nha/caithnesslawcases2.htm (770 words)

	BART SIR JOHN SINCLAIR - Online Information article about BART SIR JOHN SINCLAIR
		Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the See also:
		John Sinclair, who was created a See also:
		His eldest son, Sir George Sinclair (179o-1868) was a writer and a member of parliament, representing Caithness at intervals from 1811 till 1841.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SINCLAIR_SIR_JOHN_BART.html (802 words)

	The Barony of Cambusnethan and The Barons of Cambusnethan
		Sir John, Baron of Cambusnethan, fought with King James III at the Battle of Sauchieburn against the traditional English enemy (when the king was killed).
		John, Baron of Cambusnethan, fell at the Battle of Flodden against the English army along with the renaissance king James IV and the nobility of Scotland on 9 September 1513.
		John, who was married in 1510 to Margaret Graham, died in 1553 and the Barony estate of Cambusnethen went to his son John (8th Baron), called "Lord of the Plaides." John married Catherine Carmichael, and their son, James (b 1540), called "Velvet Eye," became the 8th Baron.
	danharrop.tripod.com /id4.html (3220 words)

	Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
		Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster founded the Department of Agriculture when he was a Minister in the Government of William Pitt, the Younger.
		He, the modern John, is a newly elected MP and thus follows in the footsteps of Sir John and indeed his Grandfather, Archibald who was Minister for Air in Churchill's war cabinet and was made the first Viscount Thurso.
		Sir John was indefatiguable and wrote and published something almost every day of his adult life.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /who/sirjohn.html (540 words)

	Sir John Sinclair
		Sir John Sinclair, Member of Parliament for Caithness at Westminster, had heard it from the Germans who used it to refer to a collection of facts about the political strength of a country.
		Sinclair did not aim to provide information to the government so that the Scotland's resources could be exploited in time of war.
		Sir John, however, was patient and eventually, after sending Statistical Missionaries' to hurry up late entries and a 'final demand' written in red ink, the 21 volumes were complete by 1799.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /john-sinclair.htm (629 words)

	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sinclair was a lawyer, politician and agrictultural reformer but he is included in these biographers because he was the first to use the word Statistics in the sense that we mean today.
		Sinclair was the first President of the Board of Agriculture in the administration of William Pitt, the Younger.
		Sinclair was the oldest founding member of the Royal Statistical Society in 1834.
	tulsagrad.ou.edu /statistics/biographies/Sinclair.htm (311 words)

	EDINA - An introduction to the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
		Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland in the 1790s is rightly seen as the first in a sequence of national descriptive accounts.
		Sir Robert Sibbald, from 1684 Scotland's Geographer Royal, distributed 'General Queries' in the 1680s and 1690s about the state of the nation, and plans made in the early eighteenth century for a never-realised Royal Society of Scotland included a parish-by-parish description of the country.
		Sir John Sinclair, MP for Caithness, lay member of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and known as 'Agricultural Sir John' for his interests in estate improvement and work for the Board of Agriculture, first articulated proposals for a detailed parish-by-parish survey of Scotland in May 1790.
	edina.ac.uk /statacc/reading/intro.shtml (1752 words)

	CSAC Sinclair Peers Baronets and Knights
		She is descended from the Sinclairs of Dunbeath, a daughter of the eighth Baronet, and is a life peer in her own right, active in the House of Lords.
		He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir John Sinclair of Barrock, 6th baronet of Dunbeath, and descended from George Sinclair of Mey who died in 1616.
		John Thurso is the Member of Parliament for Caithness, and the only person to sit in the House of Commons after previously sitting in the House of Lords.
	www.clansinclaircanada.ca /docs/peers.htm (1090 words)

	SINCLAIR HISTORY AND GENEALOGY: The Sinclairs of Caithness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A fire swept the hillside early in the 18th century, it is said, and this spurred Sir James Sinclair of Dunbeath to cut a track wide enough for three horses abreast, The 19th century roadmakers chose a new route, and this, now further improved, is the modern gateway to Caithness.
		Another disastrous expedition was that organised in 1612 by Colonel George Sinclair, natural son of Sinclair of Stirkoke, whose force of 900 mercenaries, raised in Caithness, vas ambushed in the mountains of Norway.
		Sir John Sinclair, best known for the Statistical Accounts compiled by the parish ministers, a developer even at the age of 18, called out 2,560 men to labour on it.
	www.kingcrest.com /sinclair/highland.html-ssi (2497 words)

	Clan Sinclair information - Search.com
		In the 15th century the Sinclairs were granted the earldom of Caithness, but lost it in the 17th century when Sir George Sinclair, the sixth earl, who had been forced to sell off most of the family lands, died without issue.
		Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy was the chief mortgagee of the Sinclair estates and he promptly married Sir George's widow and claimed the earldom for himself.
		Battle of Flodden Field 1515, Coldstream, England; Sir William Sinclair was one of the nobles fighting for King James.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Clan_Sinclair (1358 words)

	Scotland - Thruso To Helmsdale
		Sir George Sinclair does not farm his estate, but is content with the heritage of a great name, which meets you in every page of the early history of the Highland Society, and which will live as long as a Cheviot ewe crops the heather of Langwell.
		Sir George Sinclair 's farm, which is close to Thurso, carries a large number of half-breds, and its present tenant, Mr.
		Sir George Dunbar was, like Sir John Sinclair, one of the first followers of Mr.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/scotland-3.shtml (3096 words)

	Pioneers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sir John Sinclair of Ulster brought the sheep to his land for the benefit of his people, but was unable to prevent others from using it to oust theirs.
		For instance, Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1839) who was born in Stornoway, Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides and emigrated at an early age to Canada worked as a fur trapper and trader and with his brother and others made a long canoe trip from the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean.
		John Anderson from Edinburgh, founded the Canterbury Ironworks and Thomas Reid Fleming, a school inspector, was a founder of Victoria University College.
	www.sos.net /~scotlass/pioneers.htm (1093 words)

	Sir John Sinclair - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Sinclair, Sir John 1754-1835, Scottish agricultural economist and statistician.
		A member of Parliament (1780-1811), Sinclair also served as the first president of the newly established board of agriculture.
		A classical warrior: professor Sir John Boardman, Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art, talks to Diana Scarisbrick about his dazzlingly ambitious new book, his early career and his current campaign against politically correct obstacles to the collecting and study of ancient art.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-SinclairJ.html (543 words)

	Mary Emily Sinclair
		Mary Sinclair was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, where her father, John Elbridge Sinclair, was professor of mathematics at Worchester Polytechnic Institute.
		Her dissertation in the calculus of variations, written under the direction of Oscar Bolza, was about "Concerning a Compound Discontinuous Solution in the Problem of the Surface of Revolution of Minimum Area." This was published in the Annals of Mathematics, Vol 10 (January 1909), pp55-80 [Abstract].
		During the 1922-1923 academic year, Sinclair pursued her mathematical research at the University of Chicago and Cornell University under the auspices of a Julia C. Piatt Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
	www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/sinclair.htm (468 words)

	jsinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stewart Menzies had retired in 1951 and was replaced by his deputy, Sir John Sinclair, a former Director of Military Intelligence, 'to ensure that military intelligence was given proper priority'.
		Despite the success of Operation Boot, Sinclair's time in charge was to become known as 'the Horrors', largely due to the failures in eastern Europe and the knock-on from the Third Man affair.
		Known as 'Sinbad' Sinclair because he had served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy after being educated at Winchester and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, the new 'C' was a relatively recent member of MI6.
	hometown.aol.com /FenianRam/jsinclair.html (846 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Sir John Sinclair (1754 – 1835), politician and writer on agriculture and finance.
		Sir John Alexander Sinclair (1897 – 1977), British spy.
		John McHardy Sinclair (1933 – 2007), Professor of English Language.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=John_Sinclair (143 words)

	Sinclair
		Sir William Sinclair was Sheriff of Edinburgh 1266, 1288-90; of Haddington 1264-90; Linlithgow 1264-90; Dumfries 1288; and Justiciar of Galwythie 1288-89.
		Sir John was a son of Sir Walter Halyburton.
		John Sinclair who is said to have married Ingeborg, a natural daughter of Waldemar, King of Denmark by Jova Little.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/sinclair.html (2916 words)

	ooBdoo
		Sir John wears leather-trimmed trews of fabric cut on the straight grain.
		Trews are also part of the uniform of the composite regiment known as The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).
		Colonel Sir John Sinclair of the Caithness (see image), proved to his own satisfaction that "the truis" was an older dress than the kilt.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Trews (536 words)

	British MPs - John Sinclair (writer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		John James "Jack" Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson (16 October 1881 - 3 August 1965), was a...
		Sir John Sinclair (May 10, 1754 â“ December 21, 1835) Scotland politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.
		Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, of which he was the first president.
	british-mps.knolix.com /john-sinclair-writer-1578929.htm (738 words)

	Catherine Sinclair 1800 - 1864 was antive of Edinburgh and authored a number of books for children.
		Catherine Sinclair was the fourth daughter of Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) by his second wife, Diana.
		Sir George Sinclair, John Sinclair (1797-1875), and William Sinclair (1804-1878) were her brothers.
		She died at the vicarage, Kensington, the residence of her brother, Archdeacon John Sinclair on 6th August 1864, and was interred in the burying-ground of St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
	www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk /catherine_sinclair.htm (480 words)

	Caithness CWS - History - History of Caithness - Appendix - Appendix 2 Superstiions In Caithness
		John Sinclair of Brabster, married a daughter of Patrick Sinclair of Ulbster
		Sir Ben Sinclair 4th Bart., served heir to his brother Alex., and succeed'd to lands of Stempster by disposition from Sir Jas.
		Sir John left the property of Dunbeath to his nephew, son of his brother Alexander of Latheron: and it remained in this family until purchased, about the middle of last century, by William Sinclair of Freswick, whose son John (Sheriff of Caithness) entailed it.
	www.caithness.org /history/historyofcaithness/appendix/app5johnsinclairbarrock.htm (425 words)

	Sinclair
		Sir William Sinclair was Sheriff of Edinburgh 1266, 1288-90; of Haddington 1264-90; Linlithgow 1264-90; Dumfries 1288; and Justiciar of Galwythie 1288-89.
		Sir John was a son of Sir Walter Halyburton.
		John Sinclair who is said to have married Ingeborg, a natural daughter of Waldemar, King of Denmark by Jova Little.
	www.robertsewell.ca /sinclair.html (3016 words)

	Stop Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sinclair is the company that pre-empted Nightline's episode that read the names of those killed in Iraq, that planned an hour-long propaganda attack on John Kerry two weeks before the 2004 election, and that continues to air right-wing commentary with no ideological balance.
		Sinclair has a history of slanted news coverage: Sinclair is the company that pre-empted the Nightline episode that read the names of those killed in Iraq, that planned an hour-long propaganda attack on John Kerry two weeks before the 2004 election, and that continues to air right-wing commentary with no ideological balance.
		Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., is one of the largest television broadcasters in the country.
	stopsinclair.org (771 words)

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