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JAMES III 54TH (16TH) EARL 1889-1891

This peer, the eldest surviving son of Lieut.-Colonel John Sutherland Sinclair of the Royal Artillery, was born 31st May 1827, at Naples: educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Edinburgh University. He practised for many years as a chartered accountant, and was agent at Aberdeen for the Bank of Scotland. He was a clerk of and Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire, and was a Fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquarians.

On the death of George, Earl of Caithness, in May 1889, Mr. Sinclair was adjudged to be heir-male to the said Earl.

He was married on 26th April 1855, to Janet, only daughter of the late Roderick Macleod, M.D., of London (son of Roderick Macleod, Principal of King's College, Old Aberdeen), and had issue -

  1. JOHN SUTHERLAND, present Earl, born 17th September, 1857.
  2. NORMAN MACLEOD, The Hon. Master of Caithness, born 4th April 1862; educated at Uppingham School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1884); admitted solicitor 1887; married 1893, Lilian, daughter of Higford Higford of 23, Eaton Place, London S.W., and has issue -
    1. A daughter, born in 1894.
    Residence - 1 Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, London W.; Chambers - 38., Bedford Row, London W.C.; 19, Parliament Street, London S. W.
  3. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Rev. The Hon., born 11th May 1865; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1885), and at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1889, M.A. 1892) is curate of Hornsey North, Residence - 4 Church Lane, Hornsey North.
  4. GEORGE ARTHUR, The Hon., born 28th April 1874; educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond
  5. LADY MARGARET HELEN
  6. LADY EUPHEMIA WILHELMINA
  7. LADY MEREDITH ISABEL
  8. JANET (dead)
  9. LADY MARY JESSIE
James Augustus, Earl of Caithness, died on the 21st January 1891, in London, and was interred in the Saint Machar churchyard, Old Aberdeen. Lord Caithness was a man of considerable antiquarian research, and was the author of unpublished Manuscripts on Scottish family histories, dealing more particularly with the Orkney and Caithness families.

Lady Caithness resides at 152, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London W.

JOHN VI, 55TH (17TH) EARL 1891 -

John Sutherland Sinclair, present Earl, is also a Baronet. He was educated at Loretto School, and at the University of Aberdeen. He is domiciled in the United States of North America, where he is proprietor of the Berriedale Farm at Lakota, in North Dakota.

Residence in Britain - 152 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London, W.

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