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Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, PC, MP, FRS, FRSE, FSA (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a Scottish politician, military officer and writer who was one of the first people to use the word "statistics" in the English language in his pioneering work, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, which was published in 21 volumes.
Coronel Sir John Sinclair, primer baronet, PC, MP, FRS, FRSE, FSA (10 de mayo de 1754 - 21 de diciembre de 1835), fue un político, oficial militar, plantador y escritor escocés que fue uno de las primeras personas en utilizar la palabra "estadísticas" en inglés en su obra pionera, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, que se publicó en 21 ...
The Sinclair baronetcy, of Kinnaird in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in circa 1675 for James Sinclair. Sir John Sinclair, 4th Baronet (born 1763) succeeded in the title in 1767 but nothing further is known about him or the baronetcy.
Sinclair, Sir John, first baronet (1754–1835), agricultural improver, politician, and codifier of ‘useful knowledge’ | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (1754–1835) Rosalind Mitchison. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25627. Published in print: 23 September 2004. Published online: 23 September 2004. This version: 08 January 2015.
Sir John Alexander Sinclair, KCMG, CB, OBE (29 May 1897 – 22 March 1977) was a British Army general who was head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1953 to 1956.
Sir John Sinclair. (1754—1835) agricultural improver, politician, and codifier of ‘useful knowledge’. Quick Reference. (1754–1835) Sinclair was born 10 May 1754 at Thurso Castle, Caithness and died at Edinburgh on 21 December 1835. He was the second son of a landowner whose 60,000 acres ...
John Sinclair was a politician, agriculturalist and author from Ulbster in the Scottish Highlands. One of Sinclair’s greatest achievements was the compilation of the ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’ (1791-99), a survey of the geography, economy and society of every parish in Scotland, which covered topics as diverse as agriculture and ...
