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434 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Sons, Charles William, Master of Sinclair, A. 1831 ; educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst} entered 57th Foot, as Ensign 1848, became Lieut, 1851, Capt. 1854, Major 1856, and Lieut. -Col. 1868; served in the Crimea, and was present at the battles of Balaclava and Inkermann, and at the siege of Sebastopol, and at the attack on the Redan, where he was wounded ; was Assistant Adjutant-General to the Forces on the Bosphorus, 1855 6, and served in New Zealand, 1861 3; has the Crimean medal and clasps, the Sardinian medal, and the Turkish and New Zealand War medals ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Berwickshire,: m. 1870, Margaret Jane, daughter of James Murray, Esq., of 16, Bryanstone-square, W., and lias, with other issue, Achibald James Murray, b. 1875. Residence, Gattonside House, Melrose, N.B. Clubs, Senior United Service, Carlton, Junior Carlton. James Chisholme, b. 1837. Lockhart Matthew, b. 1855. Daughter > Mary Agnes, b. 1840. Sisters living, Eleanor, b. 1818. Jane Elizabeth, b. 1822, m. 1853, (Feilden). Creation, Baron Sinclair, in the peerage of Scotland, 1489. uarterly : 1st and 4th, azure, a lymphad, sails furled, and oars erect in saltire within a double tressure, flory counterflory, or, Orkney ; 2nd and 3rd, azure, a ship under sail, or, Caithness; over all an escutcheon of pretence, argent, charged with a cross engrailed, sable, being the paternal coat of Sinclair. Cregt, A swan, wings elevated, wgent, ducally collared and chained, or. &upportfl:0, Two griffins, proper, beaked and membered, or. Seats, Herdmanston, Haddingtonshire ; Nisbet-house, Berwickshire. Club, Carlton. SINCLAIR, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Charles St. Clair, Esq. He was b. July 30, 1/68, and in 1782, having claimed the Barony of Sinclair. was confirmed in this right by the House of Lords; was a Lieut.-Col. in the Army, and in the Berwickshire Militia, and was a Representative Peer of Scotland: m. 1st, Feb. 13, 1802, Mary Agnes, daughter of the late J. Chisholme, Esq. of Chisholme, (she d. 1814), having had issue four sons and two daughters; 2ndly, Sept. 18, 1816, Isabella Mary, daughter of A. Chatto, Esq. of Mainhouse; and d. Sept. 30, 1863, having had issue from his last marriage a son and two daughters. Sinclair, family name of the Earl of Caithness. Skeffing-ton, (Foster-Skeflmgton), family name of Viscount Massereene. SKELMERSDALE, BARON. (BOOTLE-WILBRAHAM.) EDWARD BOOTLE-WILBRAHAM, P.C., 2nd Baron, son of the Hon. Richard Bootle- Wilbraham, M.P., who died 1844, (eldest son of the 1st Baron, by Jessy, 3rd daughter of Sir R. Brooke, 6th Bart. Born Dec. 12th, 1837; succecdei his grandfather in 1853 ; was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford ; was a Lord in Waiting to the Queen, 1866 8 ; appointed Capt. of Her Majesty's Yeo- n of " Gu T a F d 1874 ; T Is a Magistrate and a Dep. Lieut, of Lancashire; has been since 1860 Capt. Lancashire Yeomanry Hussars, since 1871 one of the "whips" for the Conservative party in the House of Lords, and since 1872 Hon. Col. 6th Administrative Battalion Lancashire Volunteers : married