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See also:SINCLAIR, See also:SIR See also:JOHN, See also:BART . (1754-1835), Scottish writer on See also:finance and See also:agriculture, was the eldest son of See also:George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the See also:family of the earls of See also:Caithness, and was See also:born at See also:Thurso See also:Castle on the loth of May 1754. After studying at See also:Edinburgh, See also:Glasgow and Trinity See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he was admitted to the See also:faculty of See also:advocates in See also:Scotland, and called to the See also:English See also:bar, but never practised. In 178o he was returned to See also:parliament for Caithness, and subsequently represented several English constituencies, his See also:parliamentary career extending, with few interruptions, until 1811. He established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of See also:British See also:wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the See also:Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first See also:president. His reputation as a financier and economist had been established by the publication, in 1784, of his See also:History of the Public See also:Revenue of the British See also:Empire; in 1793 widespread ruin was prevented by the See also:adoption of his See also:plan for the issue of See also:exchequer bills; and it was on his See also:advice that, in 1797, See also:Pitt issued the " See also:loyalty See also:loan " of eighteen millions for the See also:prosecution of the See also:war. His services to scientific agriculture were no less conspicuous. He supervised the compilation of the valuable Statistical See also:Account of Scotland (21 vols., 1791-1799), and also that of the See also:General See also:Report of Scotland, issued by the Board of Agriculture; and from the reports compiled by this society he published in 1819 his See also:Code of Agriculture. He was a member of most of the See also:continental agricultural See also:societies, a See also:fellow of the Royal Societies of See also:London and Edinburgh, as well as of the Antiquarian Society of London, and president of the Highland Society in London. Originally a thorough supporter of Pitt's war policy, he later on joined the party of " armed See also:neutrality." In 1805 he was appointed by Pitt a See also:commissioner for the construction of roads and See also:bridges in the N. of Scotland, in ,8,o he was made a member of the privy See also:council and, next See also:year, received the lucrative See also:sinecure See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of commissioner of See also:excise. He died on the 21st of See also:December 1835.
Sir John Sinclair, who was created a See also:baronet in 178o, was twice married, first to a daughter of See also:Alexander See also:Maitland, by whom he had two daughters, and secondly to See also:Diana, daughter of the first See also:lord See also:Macdonald, by whom he had thirteen See also:children. His eldest son, Sir George Sinclair (179o-1868) was a writer and a member of parliament, representing Caithness at intervals from 1811 till 1841. His son, Sir John George See also:Tollemache Sinclair, the 3rd baronet, was member for the same See also:constituency from 1869 to 1885. The first baronet's third son, John (1797-1875), became See also:archdeacon of See also:Middlesex; the fifth son, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William (1804-1878), was See also:prebendary of See also:Chichester and was the See also:father of William Macdonald Sinclair (b. 1850), who in 1889 became archdeacon of
London; the See also:fourth daughter, See also:Catherine (1800-1864), at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time enjoyed some See also:vogue as an author.
See See also:Correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart., with Reminiscences of Distinguished Characters (2 vols., London, 1831); and See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life and See also:Works of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1839).
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