The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-28
ACCEPTS JOB BECAUSE
HE NEEDS THE MONEY

SotuV!i. III marriage, "h'lc SIR Henry
ms Liberal administration, in ieo5.
gave MIN seat in tho Cabinet as Sec
retary for Scotia and Moreover. whon
i ar iienry died II was found that he
mad designated his former private sec
retsry: not only as the executor Gf
his viii, but - the iceatee OF all of his
9,,tc,ai and private napGrs and CORE
coming Premier nominated HIN for a
pearasc.
Lord pentland. like his cousin, Sir
Jnhn Sinclair, OF Dumbcath. like old
SIR John Toilemnchc Sinclair. OF Ulbs-
ter. and, iil;" Lord Sinclair. is q mem
Der OF that great and historic hous.
or Sinclair. OF which the seventeenth
rarl of Caithne ss Is The chief Il -
Il family that traces back its anees-
Try to the middle of tho nntn cen
fury ana figures prominently on al
most every page of scottish history.
IN tact. there arc few names with
more sanguinary associations than that
OF Sinclair. The fourth peer Of the
line was perhaps the worst of Ills race.
with the assistance OF his cousin, Lady
lsabe! sinclair. hc contriVed to poison
the Earl and Countess sutherland. at
q supper which he gave in their honor.
then cooiiy denounced his acromplicc.
testified against her. and witnessed her
execution. lie next Kidnapped young
Lord sutherland. who w2s only fifteen
years old. and forced him 20 marry
his homely daughter, a lady Of uncer-
tain age. and OF more than question
able reputation. His son. Lord Ber-
ricGalc. master of Caithness, Is on rec
ord as having strangied Ills younger
Drothcr. William. In fact, the annals
ot the house OF Sinclair in the middle
dies. plots and countcrplots.
In olden times the estates OF the
Earldom OF Caithnoss embraced the en-
tire northarn part Of Scotland. from
sea to sea, and included tho Orkney
Islands, which were then subject to
the suzerninty of the Norwegian crown.
But owing to the fact that for tho
space OF Il little over d hundred years
no less than four cola teral branches
nave come to tho succession, all the
estates were by degrees alienat,d from
the carldom, and whom the present
Lord Caithness succeeded as s:vcn-
tcenth earl. III 1891. he found himself
without single rood of land in scot
land all his property consisting OF his
Latokah ranch In North Dakota, where
he has made his home for the great
ar part of his life, only visiting the
United Kingdom at intervals, until a
couple OF years ago. he inherited from
maternal aunt the Castle of Auch-
macoy, in Aberdeenshirc, along with its
park, Il considerable amount of landed
property, besides an income, to the
tune OF S3o,oo0 year. lie has never
married, Is now about fiftythrce years
OF age, and his next heir is his broth
or, the Hon. Norman Sinclair. Il law
yer: and after him another brother,
tho Rev. Charles Sinclair, a Glouces-
tcrshire village rector.
Lord Pentland's grandfather. the late
Sir John Sinclair. OF Dunbeath, will
be remembered by ornithologists in
connection with his attempt to intro
commissioned a London dealer to pur
chase hundreds of nightinsales' eggs, at
the liberal price of shilling each
They were we'll packed In wool and
number of trustworthy men had prev!-
ousiy been engaged TO take especial
care of all robin redbreasts' nests.
where the eggs, could DO hatchcd in
moved and replaced by those of the
nightingales, which were hatched, and
reared successfully by their robin
l9Stermothers: The young nightin-
ed perfectly at home in tho place
where they first saw the light and in
the autumn, wh.n the usual period of
migration arrived, they departed for
TO this day Scotland remains without
niGhtinGales.
Lord Pentland takes his title from
the Portland Hills. Which formerly
embraced much OF the Sinclair prop
the celebrated coursing match took
place between the hounds of King
Robert the Bruce and Sir William st.
Clair Cor Sinclair), OF Rosslyn. as more
particularly detailed by Sir Walter
Scott. in his notes to The Lay of the
Last Minstrel" and which led to the
erection by Sir William, OF the Chapel
of St Catherine The picturesque
ruins OF this ancient monument OF sir
Williams gratitude to his patron
saint were submerged by the Edin-
burgh Water Company, on the formd :
ton of their great reservoir. Hut they
may still he perceived, arising from
the surface of its waters. when the
latter are unusually low.
Lord and Lady p sntland have two
children. a son OF five. and a daughter
OF seven. I; is unlikely that they will
accompany their parents TO India, as
to European children, and the voy-
ages out and back, especially through
the Red Sea. are quite the reverse az
beneficial to their health. 1t Is cN-
pected that they VIII be left at Duh
lin. in charge OF their maternal grand
parents, Lord and Lady Aberdeen
Lady Pentland returning each year tt
visit them. although their father must
resign himself TO separation from
them OF five years
The Slnclairs are very tall, and the
late Catherine Sinclair the we'll
known novelist, and her six sisters
The story ran that the seven OF then
together made up "fortyhvc feet oil
Misses Sinclair" while tho pavement
in front of their fathers house al
Edinburgh was known as the Giants
Causeway"
(Copyright. 1912. b. the Brentwood
Company