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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.
On 18 October 1888, at age 31, he married Agnes Charlotte Barnes, daughter of Thomas J. Barnes. In 1889 as a condition of inheriting the Castle of Mey, then known as Barrogill Castle, he and his wife legally adopted the surname Sinclair.
[3] [5] Barrogill passed out of the Sinclair family in 1889, on the death of George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness, when it passed to F. G. Heathcote (Sinclair). [6] In 1929 it was bought by Captain Frederic Bouhier Imbert-Terry. The castle was used as an officers' rest home during the Second World War, and in 1950 the estate farms were sold ...
Queen Victoria created him the 1st Baron Barrogill, in 1866, taking the Barony's name from the Castle of Mey which was then known as Barrogill Castle. This is a peerage of the United Kingdom which can only pass down the direct male line, and became extinct on the death of his son, George Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness.
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.
Gonzalez, who was 72 at the time, was arrested in 2019 soon after taking office as a council member in Castle Hills, Texas. She had run for election as a critic of the city manager.
Earl of Caithness is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland, and it has a very complex history.Its first grant, in the modern sense as to have been counted in strict lists of peerages, is now generally held to have taken place in favor of Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn, in 1334, although in the true circumstances of 14th century, this presumably was just a ...
However, George Sinclair of Keiss continued his opposition and laid siege, with firearms and artillery, to Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, which he took after feeble resistance from the garrison. As a result, he and his three friends who had assisted him, Sinclair of Broynach, Sinclair of Thura and Mackay of Strathnaver , were declared rebels. [ 8 ]