Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd Baronet (8 November 1825 – 30 September 1912) was a Scottish landowner and Liberal

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1869 to 1885.

Born in Edinburgh in 1825, he was the son of Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet

-Life:George, eldest son of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, and Diana, only daughter of Alexander Macdonald, first lord Macdonald, was born in Edinburgh on 28 August 1790. His brothers John and William Sinclair and sister Catherine....

, and Lady Catherine Camilla Tollemache, daughter of William Talmash, Lord Huntingtower

Sir William Talmash, 1st Baronet

William Manners Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower , known as Sir William Manners, Bt, between 1793 and 1821, was a British nobleman and Tory politician.-Background:...

. He was a Page of Honour

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 for Queen Adelaide

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

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He served as a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards

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. In 1868. he succeeded his father to the baronetcy. He was Vice-Lieutenant

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 for Caithness

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Sinclair was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Caithness in 1869 and held the seat until 1885. His majority of 13 over the Conservative candidate at the 1874 election is one of the smallest on record. At the 1885 General election, his son Clarence succeeded him as Liberal candidate, but was defeated by Gavin Brown Clark, the Crofters' Party

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 candidate.

Sinclair married Emma Standish, daughter of William Standish, Duxbury Park, Lancashire

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, and Cocken Hall, Durham

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 in 1853. The couple had two son and two daughters. The marriage was dissolved in 1878.

• Clarence Granville Sinclair (3 April 1858 – 16 November 1895), father of Archibald Sinclair
  Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
  Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC , known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party....
  
  
• George Felix Standish Sinclair JP (11 January 1861 – 10 June 1943)
• Amy Camilla Sinclair (died 27 February 1925)
• Nina Mary Adelaide Sinclair (died 13 February 1924)

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair

Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso

Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC , known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party....

, later Viscount Thurso

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Viscount Thurso, of Ulbster in the County of Caithness, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for the Scottish Liberal politician and former Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, 4th Baronet. His son, the second Viscount, served as Lord Lieutenant of...

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Miscellaneous

Sinclair was the earliest born person to have made a gramophone

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 disc recording. He made titles for Columbia, Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd. and Odeon, all in 1906. . He also commissioned a statue of Mary, Queen of Scots, at 143–144 Fleet Street

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, London

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. He was educated at Cheam School

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 and the University of Durham.