Robert Sinclair 1747 - 1829
Robert Sinclair , Esq., Bar. at Law and Recorder of York. Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" for YORK in Pigot's Directory of 1829. Nobility, gentry etc Sinclair Robert, esq. Coney street Barristers, Sinclair Robert, (& recorder of York) Coney street He is noted as Recorder in 1823 too. 1823 THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE RIDING WEST RIDING. Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, THE RIGHT HON. HENRY, EARL OF HAREWOOD. DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS Sinclair, Robert, Esq. York "The Saint-Clairs of the Isles, page 323, Chapter XIV. I R I S H S C I O N S THE SINCLAIRS OF HOLYHILL. There are one or two further references to this family, viz.:-- 1. Early in the 18th century Robert Lowry, grandfather of the first Lord Belmore, married Miss Sinclair, daughter of the Rev. James Sinclair of Holyhill, County Down, and granddaughter of sir James Sinclair of Caithness.* 2. ROBERT SINCLAIR, recorder of York, who married, in 1811, Elizabeth Sothern, daughter of Sothern of Darrington Hall, Yorkshire, was of this line. + John Sinclair of Freswick writes in 1782 from Knaresboro': "At York there's a very respectable sensible man, Councillor Robert Sinclair, of the Holyhill family, in Ireland. He has a property there of £400 a year; is marry't here to a lady of good family, by whom he will get £10,000. The late Mr. Pope of Reay knew to what family in Caithness they were connected. He wants to know his descent, when they emigrate, or when came of the Caithness family."*
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| Born: 1747 | Baptised:
| | Died: 1829 | Buried: 5th Dec 1829
| | Family: Sinclair |
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