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The Master of Caithness died at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe in 1576. [3] [2] George, 4th Earl of Caithness also obtained a remission to imprison his younger brother David Sinclair in Castle Sinclair Girnigoe. [3] George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness died at Edinburgh on 9 September 1582 and was buried in Rosslyn Chapel. [1]
George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness received charters from the Crown on 17 December 1591, 18 June 1606, 3 November 1612 and 9 June 1615. [2] He resigned the earldom of Caithness on 3 April 1592, with the consent of his wife, Jean Gordon, Countess of Caithness, into the hands of James VI of Scotland.
George Sinclair was the only son of James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness and his first wife Louisa Georgiana Philips (1827-70), daughter of Sir George Philips, 2nd Baronet. He was educated privately and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. [3] On 28 March 1881 he succeeded his father as 15th Earl of Caithness and 2nd Baron Barrogill.
This however was challenged by George Sinclair of Keiss, son of Francis Sinclair of Northfield, who in turn was a younger son of George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness. [1] On 13 July 1680, Campbell of Glenorchy took a force of 800 men north to evict Sinclair of Keiss, who was waiting for him with 500 men near Wick.
John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness (1490–1529) died at the Battle of Summerdale in May 1529 in Orkney. He was succeeded by his son George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair was taken prisoner. [12] [13] At the Battle of Solway Moss in 1552, Scots commanded by Oliver Sinclair of Pitcairns were beaten by the ...
In 1788, Sinclair married Diana MacDonald, daughter of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald, and together they had 13 children. His eldest son, Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet (1790–1868), was a writer and a Member of Parliament, representing Caithness at intervals from 1811 until 1841, and married Lady Catherine Camilla Tollemache.
The Sinclair baronetcy, of Dunbeath in the County of Caithness, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 12 October 1704 for James Sinclair, with remainder to his heirs male whatsoever. He was a descendant of George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. On the death of the fifth Baronet in 1842 the line of the first Baronet failed.
George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness married Mary, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, but had no children.He died at Thurso Castle in 1676. The Earldom of Caithness being much in debt, he had transferred the estates and the title to his principal creditor, John Campbell of Glenorchy, who upon Sinclair's death was created Earl of Caithness by patent.