• George Philips Alexander Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness (30 November 1858 – 25 May 1889), was a Scottish hereditary peer. George Sinclair was the only...
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  • William Sinclair (1410–1480), 1st Earl of Caithness (1455–1476), last Earl (Jarl) of Orkney (1434–1470 de facto, –1472 de jure), 2nd Lord Sinclair and 11th...
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    Campbell Sinclair, 13th Earl of Caithness (1790–1855) James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness (1821–1881) George Philips Alexander Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness...
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    Lothians. The chiefs of the clan were the Barons of Roslin and later the Earls of Orkney and Earls of Caithness. The Sinclairs are believed to have come...
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  • George Sinclair, 7th Earl of Caithness (died 1698), Scottish nobleman George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness (1858–1889), Scottish aristocrat George...
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    John Sinclair (died 1529) was a Scottish nobleman, 3rd Earl of Caithness and chief of the Clan Sinclair, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands. He...
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    scientist and inventor. Caithness was the son of Alexander Sinclair, 13th Earl of Caithness, and his wife Frances Harriet, daughter of the Very Reverend William...
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    Sinclair, the foud of Shetland, was brought to Girnigoe in May 1573, paralysed after a stroke. In 1577, George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness, imprisoned his...
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    George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. According to a February 2019 report: "The castle was probably built between 1566 and 1572 by George Sinclair,...
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    was the grandfather of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, the builder of Rosslyn Chapel. He is best known today because of a modern legend that...
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  • remembered[by whom?] for inheriting Castle of Mey from George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness in 1889. As a condition of the inheritance he legally changed his...
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    probably become extinct in Caithness by the 15th century. The Caith element of the name Caithness comes from the name of a Pictish tribe known as the...
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    when George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness, died at Edinburgh, his heart was brought to Wick where it was encased in lead and placed in Sinclair's aisle...
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    Robert Sinclair, 9th Baronet, of Murkle, former captain in the 38th Foot, appointed 10 October 1864 Lt-Col George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness, appointed...
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    flory of the second" as shown today in the 1st quarter of the arms of Sinclair, Earl of Caithness. Crawford (2013) states that there was no Earl of either...
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    the first person to be styled Lord Sinclair was William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney and 1st Earl of Caithness (died 1480). However, according to Roland...
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    Clan Gunn (category Gaelic families of Norse descent)
    'chief' of the Clan Gunn to appear in historical records definitively was George Gunn, who was the crouner or coroner of Caithness during the 15th century...
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  • Sinclair, Master of Caithness (died 1576) was a Scottish nobleman. John Sinclair, Master of Caithness was the eldest son of George Sinclair, 4th Earl...
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    in Midlothian, Scotland. The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness with a ground-breaking ceremony in 1456. After the Scottish...
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    the Clan Sinclair of Caithness. This was followed by the Battle of Leckmelm where the Mackay of Aberach branch of the clan assisted the Earl of Sutherland...
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    Glenorchy, after the death of George Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, without issue. Lord Glenorchy, sold it to the Dunbars of Hempriggs in 1690. The Dunbars...
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    possession of the estates on Sinclair's death in May 1676, and was created earl of Caithness in June the following year. Sinclair's heir, George Sinclair of Keiss...
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    Sutherland of Dunbeath left two legitimate daughters: Marjory, who married as the second wife to William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness and Mariota...
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    surname Sinclair comes from the Clan Sinclair, whose progenitors moved to Scotland and were given the land of Roslin, Midlothian by the King of Scots....
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  • daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. He succeeded his elder brother George as Earl in 1513. As George had tried to sell the family lands...
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    plot apparently hatched by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. Langwell Castle, Latheron, Caithness, was held by the Earls of Sutherland but was replaced...
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    Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy and George Sinclair of Keiss over who had the right to the title and lands of the Earl of Caithness. The battle was fought...
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  • (daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness), and the grandson of George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes. George was invested in his lands as Earl of Rothes...
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  • December 1855 James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness 29 February 1856 – 28 March 1881 George Philips Alexander Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness 7 May 1881 –...
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  • Lord Crichton 1454–1456: William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Caithness 1457–1460: George Shoreswood, Bishop of Brechin 1460–1482: Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord...
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