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William Sinclair

• Douglass, Robert. The Baronage of Scotland: Containing, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom. (London: Cadell & Davies, 1798), Page 249.

XXI. William Sinclair of Roslin Esq; who succeeded him, and is undoubted heir male and representative of this most ancient family. He married Cordelia, daughter to Sir George Wishart of Cliftonhall, by whom he had three sons and five daughters, who all died young, excepting his daughter Sarah.

1.   Douglass, Robert. The Baronage of Scotland: Containing, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom. (London: Cadell & Davies, 1798)
   Page 249.

   XXI. William Sinclair of Roslin Esq; who succeeded him, and is undoubted heir male and representative of this most ancient family. He married Cordelia, daughter to Sir George Wishart of Cliftonhall, by whom he had three sons and five daughters, who all died young, excepting his daughter Sarah.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   William St Clair of Roslin.

   William Saint Clair of Roslin, 21st Baron of Roslin (died 1778) was a member of the Clan Sinclair. His title, Baron of Roslin, was not a peerage but a Scottish feudal barony. He had an interest in sport and was a skilled golfer and archer. He was a freemason, being initiated to the fraternity on 18 May 1736. He is known as the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He was elected to the office on St. Andrew's Day of the same year (1736).
   Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon

3. ↑
   Edinburgh Arrow.

   The Edinburgh Arrow is an annual clout archery competition held by the Royal Company of Archers, an archery club who act as the Sovereign's Bodyguard in Scotland. The Edinburgh Arrow is the longest-running annual archery competition in the recorded history of the sport. The competition takes its name from the silver arrow which is awarded for first prize.

4.   Saint-Clair, Roland William. The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the surname of Sinclair. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978)
   Pages 286 to 296.

   XV WILLIAM ST.CLAIR
   
   Last of Roslin, who married Cordelia, daughter of Sir George Wishart of Cliftonhall, by whom he had three sons and five daughters, who all died young except his daughter Sarah.
   He was a man of magnificent physique, and in all the manly sports which require strength and dexterity was unrivalled; his particular delight being archery. A fuller account of him will appear in Historiettes.
   
   The line of Roslin is generally assumed by peerage and other writers to be extinct, but it seems scarcely credible that there are no male descendants extant of the eight sons of Sir Oliver, the eight sons of the first Sir William, or the ten sons of Sir William of Pentland. They are perhaps to be found in the Isles, where Hercules, son of Alexander Saintcler of Cuthilton and Little Deny, is discovered acquiring notoriety as an iconoclast; and Edward Sinclair of Dryden, the "Gudeman of Ethay", left issue several sons. It is stated in Hay's "Genealogie" that Henry, third son to Sir Oliver Saintclere of Roslin, by Isabella Levingston, was governor of the Castle of Bergen in Norway, where his arms are seen upon that part of the Castle that was built in his time; and in the Holy Cross Church of Bergen his name is written. He married Gurena Guldelove, by whom he had several children, settled in Norway, whose posterity remain there to this day. This may be the Henry to whom Sir Oliver assigned the lands of Braidle in 1512, but it is generally understood that the only Henry, son of Sir Oliver, was the Bishop of Ross, who could not have been identical with the Governor of Bergen Castle, nor was the stone Bergen Castle then erected.

5. ↑ William St Clair of Roslin
   Scotland, from the Original in St John's Chapel Canongale Edinburgh
   Hereditary Grand Master Mason of Scotland, 1736
   Issued on Fine Art Paper at Freemason Collection of Massonic Art
   
   William St Clair of Roslin, 21st Baron of Rosslyn.
   
   First Grand Master Mason of Scotland, elected in 1736 when the Grand Lodge of Scotland was formed.
   Two old documents known as the Saint Clair Charters, one dated about 1601 and one 1628, in which documents the statement is made that the Operative Masons of Scotland had conferred upon the family of Saint Clair of Roslin the honor of being recognized as Patron and Protector of the Craft. In 1736 when a first Grand Master was to be chosen for the Scottish Grand Lodge, William Saint Clair was made a Freemason in the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning and he also formally resigned all claims to be Patron and Protector of the Freemasons in Scotland on November 30 of the same year at a meeting held at Edinburgh. William Saint Clair died in 1778.
   Initiated on May 18, 1736 and passed on June 2, 1736 in the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning
6. ↑ From 1766 until his death St Clair led the Royal Company of Archers as praesis of the council. At the introduction of each new member he announced, without justification, that the company had the right to form a bodyguard whenever the monarch visited Edinburgh. This claim proved the basis for the company's becoming the royal bodyguard during George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and on subsequent royal engagements. In later life St Clair was described by Sir Walter Scott as considerably above 6 feet, broad shouldered, with dark grey locks and handsome if somewhat exaggerated features. He died at his home at Liberton Wynd, Edinburgh, on 4 January 1778, and was buried in Edinburgh. The eulogy at his funeral by Sir William Forbes,