Description:Chapters: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of Caithness. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC (22 October 1890 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a Scottish politician and leader of the British Liberal Party. Sinclair was the son of a Scottish father and an American mother. He was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet. In 1912 he succeeded his grandfather Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet as fourth Baronet, of Ulbster. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1910. Sinclair served on the Western Front during the First World War and rose to the rank of Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment. He served as second-in-command to Winston Churchill when Churchill commanded the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Ploegsteert Wood sector of the Western Front in 1916, after Churchill had resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty. They formed a lasting friendship that would become a significant political alliance in later decades. From 1919 to 1921 he served as Personal Military Secretary to Churchill when he returned to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for War, then accompanied him to the Colonial Office as Private Secretary. In 1922 Sinclair entered the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Caithness and Sutherland, supporting David Lloyd George and defeating the incumbent Liberal supporter of H. H. Asquith. His constituency was the largest, in terms of area, in the United Kingdom. He rose through the Liberal ranks as the pa...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=42108We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lord-Lieutenants of Caithness: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland. To get started finding Lord-Lieutenants of Caithness: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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Lord-Lieutenants of Caithness: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
Description: Chapters: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of Caithness. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC (22 October 1890 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a Scottish politician and leader of the British Liberal Party. Sinclair was the son of a Scottish father and an American mother. He was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet. In 1912 he succeeded his grandfather Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet as fourth Baronet, of Ulbster. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1910. Sinclair served on the Western Front during the First World War and rose to the rank of Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment. He served as second-in-command to Winston Churchill when Churchill commanded the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Ploegsteert Wood sector of the Western Front in 1916, after Churchill had resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty. They formed a lasting friendship that would become a significant political alliance in later decades. From 1919 to 1921 he served as Personal Military Secretary to Churchill when he returned to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for War, then accompanied him to the Colonial Office as Private Secretary. In 1922 Sinclair entered the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Caithness and Sutherland, supporting David Lloyd George and defeating the incumbent Liberal supporter of H. H. Asquith. His constituency was the largest, in terms of area, in the United Kingdom. He rose through the Liberal ranks as the pa...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=42108We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lord-Lieutenants of Caithness: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland. To get started finding Lord-Lieutenants of Caithness: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.