Baron Pentland, of Lyth in the County of Caithness, was title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1909 for the Scottish Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician John Sinclair

John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, GCSI, GCIE was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator and Privy Councillor who served as the Secretary of Scotland from 1905 to 1912 and the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919.Baron Pentland was born John Sinclair to Sir John...

. He later served as Governor of Madras. Lord Pentland was the son of Captain George Sinclair, younger son of Sir John Sinclair, 6th Baronet, of Dunbeath, a descendant of a descendant of George Sinclair of Mey, third son of George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness (see Sinclair Baronets

Sinclair Baronets

There have been seven Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Sinclair, six in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Four of the creations are extant as of 2008....

 and Earl of Caithness

Earl of Caithness

Earl of Caithness is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland, and 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...

 for earlier history of the family). The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, on 14 February 1984.

Barons Pentland (1909)

• John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
  John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
  John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, GCSI, GCIE was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator and Privy Councillor who served as the Secretary of Scotland from 1905 to 1912 and the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919.Baron Pentland was born John Sinclair to Sir John...
  
   (1860–1925)
• Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland
  Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland
  Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland was a Scottish peer. He inherited the title from his father, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, in 1925.- Family :...
  
  (1907–1984)