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Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835) was a Scottish politician, writer on 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. Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and was born at Thurso Castle, Caithness. After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and at Trinity College, Oxford, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, and called to the English bar, though he never practised. In 1780, he was returned to the House of Commons for the Caithness constituency, and subsequently represented several English constituencies, his parliamentary career extending, with few interruptions, until 1811. Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first president. His reputation as a financier and economist had been established by the publication, in 1784, of his '' History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire; '' in 1793 widespread ruin was prevented by the adoption of his plan for the issue of Exchequer Bills; and it was on his advice that, in 1797, Pitt issued the "loyalty loan" of eighteen millions for the prosecution of the war. ==Family and private life== Sir John Sinclair, who was created a baronet in 1786, was twice married. He had two daughters by his first wife. One source gives his wife's name as Lady Catherine Camilla Tollemache, daughter of William Talmash, Lord Huntingtower. whilst a later source says her name was Sarah Maitland who died in 1785. The two daughters were Hannah and Janet, who became a religious writer.〔Rosalind Mitchison, ‘Sinclair, Sir John, first baronet (1754–1835)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2014 (accessed 9 Oct 2014 )〕 Sinclair was married, secondly, to Diana, daughter of Alexander Lord Macdonald, by whom he had thirteen children. His eldest son, Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet (1790–1868) was a writer and a Member of Parliament, representing Caithness at intervals from 1811 until 1841. His son, Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, was member for the same constituency from 1869 to 1885. The first Baronet's third son, also John (1797–1875), became Archdeacon of Middlesex; the fourth son was Captain Archibald Sinclair RN; the fifth son, William (1804–1878), was Prebendary of Chichester and was the father of William Macdonald Sinclair (b. 1850), who in 1889 became Archdeacon of London; the fourth daughter, Catherine Sinclair was an author. In the 1830s he is listed as living at 133 George Street, in the centre of Edinburgh's New Town.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(209) - Scottish Post Office Directories > Towns > Edinburgh > 1805-1834 - Post Office annual directory > 1832-1833 - Scottish Directories - National Library of Scotland )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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