Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair
Early and personal life
Charles St Clair was born in 1914, the son of the Archibald St Clair (later the 16th Lord Sinclair), and his wife Violet Kennedy, daughter of Col. John Kennedy.[1] He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.[2][3] When his father succeeded to the Lordship in 1922,[4] Charles St Clair became known as The Master of Sinclair, in accordance with the usual practice for Scottish peerages. In 1968 he married Anne Cotterell (daughter of Sir Richard Cotterell, 5th Baronet and Lady Lettice Lygon[5]), with whom he had two daughters and a son Matthew Murray Kennedy St Clair, 18th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded him as Lord Sinclair.[6]
Military career
St Clair was commissioned as a
St Clair was also a member of the Royal Company of Archers (The Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland) for many years.[6] This entailed only ceremonial duties.
Royal Service
Charles St Clair was appointed
He was made a Member (4th Class) of the
In October 1953 St Clair was appointed an Extra Equerry to
Public Offices
St Clair succeeded his father as Lord Sinclair in November 1957.[1] In 1959 he was elected as one of the Scottish representative peers in the House of Lords,[21] a position also held by the previous four Lords Sinclair.[22] This appointment terminated in 1963 when the passing of the Peerage Act ended the election of representative peers and allowed all Scottish peers to sit in the House of Lords. Before he resigned the office of York Herald, Lord Sinclair was in the possibly unique position of being able to participate in the ceremonial of the State Opening of Parliament either in his capacity as a member of the House of Lords or as a herald. (It is perhaps for their participation in the State Opening that the officers of arms are best known to the general public.)
In 1969 Lord Sinclair was appointed a
Lord Sinclair died on 1 April 2004.
Arms
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Notes
- ^ a b Obituary, The Times, 27 November 1957, p14
- ^ The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
- ^ The Times, 24 June 1936, p.21
- ^ The Times, 26 April 1922, p16
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, 1999 Edition Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Obituary in The Scotsman 8 April 2004
- ^ "No. 34327". The London Gazette. 29 September 1936. p. 6215.
- ^ "No. 34364". The London Gazette. 29 January 1937. p. 619.
- ^ "No. 34546". The London Gazette. 30 August 1938. p. 5549.
- ^ "No. 37967". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 May 1947. p. 2428.
- ^ "No. 38658". The London Gazette. 5 July 1949. p. 3299.
- ^ The Times, 8 February 1952, p6
- ^ "No. 41136". The London Gazette. 26 July 1957. p. 4428.
- ^ "No. 44608". The London Gazette. 6 June 1968. p. 6411.
- ^ "No. 39863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 May 1953. p. 2947.
- ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1990. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 42094". The London Gazette. 15 July 1960. p. 4925.
- ^ "No. 42094". The London Gazette. 7 May 1968. p. 5187.
- ^ "No. 39991". The London Gazette. 20 October 1953. p. 5579.
- ^ See the Court Circular, e.g. The Times, 17 March 1954, p10
- ^ The Times, 7 October 1959, p14
- ^ See e.g. The Times, 1 June 1929, p6 for his father, 11 December 1885, p6 for his grandfather, 4 December 1868, p7 for his great-grandfather, 14 February 1835, p5 for his great-great-grandfather.
- ^ "No. 39991". The London Gazette. 15 April 1969. p. 3936.
- ^ Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and subsequently The Lord-Lieutenants Order 1975 (1975/428)
- ^ "No. 47246". The London Gazette. 14 June 1977. p. 7657.
- ^ "No. 49192". The London Gazette. 10 December 1982. p. 16209.
- ^ "No. 51800". The London Gazette. 4 July 1989. p. 7811.
- ^ "York Herald | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2018.