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Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

Index Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

The Rt Hon Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet MP FRS FRSE FLS LLD (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835) was a Scottish politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes. [1]

70 relations: Aberdeenshire, Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Archaeology, Archdeacon of London, Archdeacon of Middlesex, Badbea, Baronet, Barristers in England and Wales, Board of Agriculture (1793–1822), British Science Association, Buteshire (UK Parliament constituency), Cairn Catto, Caithness, Caithness (UK Parliament constituency), Catherine Sinclair, Cheviot sheep, Chichester, Continental Europe, Earl of Caithness, Edinburgh, England, English language, Faculty of Advocates, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Frederick Stuart (British politician), Gilt-edged securities, Highland Society of London, HM Customs and Excise, Holyrood Abbey, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Janet Colquhoun, John Sinclair (Archdeacon of Middlesex), Lincoln's Inn, Linnean Society of London, London, Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency), Member of parliament, Minister (Christianity), New Town, Edinburgh, Oxford University Press, Parish, Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency), Prebendary, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Rosalind Mitchison, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, ..., Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Statistical Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Scotland, Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet, Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, Society of Antiquaries of London, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Statistics, Thurso Castle, Trinity College, Oxford, Ulbster, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Viscount Thurso, William Pitt the Younger, William Sinclair (Archdeacon of London), William Sinclair (priest), Wool. Expand index (20 more) »

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald

Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (c. 1745 – 12 September 1795), was a Scottish peer.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archdeacon of London

The Archdeacon of London is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England.

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Archdeacon of Middlesex

The Archdeacon of Middlesex is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England.

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Badbea

Badbea (pronounced bad-bay) is a former clearance village perched on the steep slopes above the cliff tops of Berriedale on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Barristers in England and Wales

Barristers in England and Wales are one of the two main categories of lawyer in England and Wales, the other being solicitors.

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Board of Agriculture (1793–1822)

The Board of Agriculture was a British voluntary association and chartered society founded in 1793 to promote agricultural improvement.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Buteshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Buteshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.

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Cairn Catto

Cairn Catto is a Neolithic long cairn near Longside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Caithness

Caithness (Gallaibh, Caitnes; Katanes) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Caithness (UK Parliament constituency)

Caithness was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.

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Catherine Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair (17 April 1800 – 6 August 1864) was a Scottish novelist and a writer of children's literature which departed from the moralising approach common in that period.

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Cheviot sheep

The Cheviot is a breed of white-faced sheep which gets its name from a range of hills in north Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Continental Europe

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.

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Earl of Caithness

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

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Faculty of Advocates

The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Frederick Stuart (British politician)

Frederick Stuart (24 September 1751 – 17 May 1802) was a British East India Company employee and politician.

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Gilt-edged securities

Gilt-edged securities are bonds issued by the UK Government.

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Highland Society of London

The Highland Society of London is a charity registered in England and Wales, with "the view of establishing and supporting schools in the Highlands and in the Northern parts of Great Britain, for relieving distressed Highlanders at a distance from their native homes, for preserving the antiquities and rescuing from oblivion the valuable remains of Celtic literature, and for promoting the improvement and general welfare of the Northern parts of Great Britain".

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HM Customs and Excise

HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (or His as appropriate), often abbreviated to HMCE) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.

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Holyrood Abbey

Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie

James Archibald Stuart, later Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (19 September 1747 – 1 March 1818), British politician and soldier, was the second son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and his wife Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute.

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Janet Colquhoun

Janet Colquhoun (pronounced; née Sinclair; also known as Janet Sinclair and Lady Colquhoun of Luss; 17 April 1781 – 21 October 1846) was a British religious writer.

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John Sinclair (Archdeacon of Middlesex)

The Rev John Sinclair FRSE (20 August 1797 - 22 May 1875) was a religious author and amateur biologist, He served as Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1844 until his death.

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Lincoln's Inn

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar.

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Linnean Society of London

The Linnean Society of London is a society dedicated to the study of, and the dissemination of information concerning, natural history, evolution and taxonomy.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)

Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorized by a church, or other religious organization, to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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New Town, Edinburgh

The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Parliament of Great Britain

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency)

Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire.

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Prebendary

tags--> A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Rosalind Mitchison

Rosalind Mary Mitchison FRSE (11 April 1919 – 19 September 2002) was a 20th century British historian who specialised in Scottish social history.

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Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) was founded in Edinburgh in 1784 as the Highland Society of Edinburgh.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

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Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is one of the world's most distinguished and renowned statistical societies.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1790 – 1868), was a Scottish politician and author.

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Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet

Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd Baronet (8 November 1825 – 30 September 1912) was a Scottish landowner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1869 to 1885.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London (a building owned by the UK government), and is a registered charity.

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Statistical Accounts of Scotland

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a series of documentary publications, related in subject matter though published at different times, covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

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Thurso Castle

Thurso Castle (alternatively, Castrum De Thorsa, Castle of Ormly, and Castle of Ormlie) is a ruined 19th-century castle, located in Thurso, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands.

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Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Ulbster

Ulbster is a scattered crofting hamlet on the eastern coast of Caithness, within the parish of Wick, in the Scottish Highlands, within the Highland Council area.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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Viscount Thurso

Viscount Thurso, of Ulbster in the County of Caithness, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a prominent British Tory statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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William Sinclair (Archdeacon of London)

William Macdonald Sinclair, DD, FRGS (1850–1917), was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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William Sinclair (priest)

William Sinclair (4 September 1804 – 8 July 1878) was a Scottish author and rector of St George's Church, Leeds, and of Pulborough, Sussex.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Sinclair,_1st_Baronet

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