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[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 ...
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.
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 .
William Sinclair, first laird of Mey and ancestor of the Sinclairs of Ulbster. His son William was at High School in Edinburgh in 1595 and shot John MacMorran. George Sinclair of Mey, Chancellor of Caithness. David Sinclair. [1] Barbara Sinclair or Beatrix Sinclair, [1] who married Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland and divorced him by 1573.
Frederick Granville Heathcote (8 December 1857 – 16 March 1914) was a Scottish zoologist best 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 name to Frederick Granville Sinclair.
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 ...
In 1588 Castle Sinclair Girnigoe withstood a siege by the Earl of Sutherland and in 1590 George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness invaded Sutherland which resulted in the Battle of Clynetradwell. [22] On 3 April 1593, George, 5th Earl of Caithness resigned his earldom in return for novodamus and remainder to his son William Sinclair.
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.