| Year |
Month |
Event |
Description |
Reference |
| 1829 |
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James
2nd Earl of Rosslyn |
Created
a Privy Councillor |
Debretts |
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| 1831 |
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Dougald
Sinclair |
A
Baptist minister from Mid-Argyll who laid foundation of the
church in Colonsay emigrates to Canada at earlier emigrants
wishes and churches around Lobo became known as 'Sinclair
Baptist' |
Evangelical
Missionaries in the early Nineteenth-Century Highlands (Meek) |
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| 1833 |
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Lt.
Col Thomas Staunton Sinclair |
Created
a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order |
Knights
of England (Shaw) |
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| 1834 |
|
George
Sinclair |
Involved
in the planning and laying out of Prince's Street Gardens in
Edinburgh |
Bodleian
Library, Oxford |
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1834-35 |
|
James
2nd Earl of Rosslyn |
Lord
President of the Council |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1837 |
18-Jan |
James
2nd Earl of Rosslyn |
Dies
succeeded by son James |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1844 |
06-Jan |
Andrew
Sinclair |
Colonial
Secretary in New Zealand |
Dictionary
of National Biography |
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| 1855 |
24-Dec |
Alexander
13th Earl dies |
Succeeded
by his son James 14th Earl, a Fellow of the Royal Society and
an inventor of a steam carriage on macadam roads, a
gravitating compass and a tape loom
for weavers. |
Complete
Peerage
Dictionary of National Biography |
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1856-81 |
|
James
14 th Earl of Caithness |
Lord
Lieutenant of Caithness and Vice Admiral of Caithness |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1856-58
& 1859-86 |
|
James
14th Earl of Caithness |
A
Lord in Waiting to the Queen |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1857 |
|
James
Sinclair |
Having
been instrumental in the layout of the Imperial Gardens at St.
Petersburg he was commissioned to plan the refurbishment of 64
acres of rubbish tips and swamp into what is now known as
Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne |
Australian
Biographies |
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1858-68 |
|
James
14th Earl of Caithness |
Representative
Peer of Scotland |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1859 |
Mar |
James
3rd Earl of Rosslyn |
Under
Secretary of State for War |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1861 |
|
Rosslyn
Chapel |
Restored
by James, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn. Sunday services begin again. |
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| 1861
- 62 |
|
Charles,(
to be 16th Lord Sinclair) |
Assistant
Military Secretary in New Zealand Wars |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
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| 1861 |
|
Catherine
Sinclair |
Reknowned
novelist, dies |
Dictionary
of National Biography |
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| 1862 |
22-Apr |
Rosslyn
Chapel |
Rededicated
by Bishop of Edinburgh |
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| 1862 |
|
Wick |
Largest
herring port in the world with 1122 boats |
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| 1862 |
13-Dec |
Battle
of Fredricksburg, USA |
Colonel
William H Sinclair of Sixth Regiment (Federal) serves with
distinction and is wounded |
Journal
of the American Civil War. |
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| 1863 |
30-Sep |
Charles
14th Lord Sinclair |
Dies.
Succeeded by his son James |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
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| 1866 |
01-May |
James,
14th Earl created Baron Barrogill |
|
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
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| 1866 |
|
James
3rd Earl of Rosslyn |
Promoted
to General |
Debretts |
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| 1866 |
16-Jun |
James
3rd Earl of Rosslyn |
Dies
succeeded by son Francis |
Complete
Peerage |
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| 1868
- 80 |
|
James,
15th Lord Sinclair |
Representative
Peer |
Scots
Peerage (Paul) |
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1870 |
|
Francis
4th Earl of Rosslyn |
Installed 70th Grand Master Mason of Scotland
and served for 3 years until 1873 |
Rosslyn
Chapel (The Earl of Rosslyn) |
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