Archibald St Clair, 16th Lord Sinclair

Archibald James Murray St Clair, 16th Lord Sinclair MVO ( February 16, 1875 - November 25, 1957 ) was a British peer and politician .

He was the older son of Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair (1831-1922) from his marriage to Margaret Jane Murray († 1935).

He attended Eton College and then entered the British Army . In 1896 he became 2nd Lieutenant with the 2nd Dragoons (Scots Grays) . In 1899 he was promoted to lieutenant and in 1901 to captain . He fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War . He was inducted into the Royal Company of Archers and held the court office of Extra Equerry for Prince Arthur of Connaught from 1914 to 1938 . In 1918 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Victorian Order and was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun in 1919 . At times he served as Justice of the Peace for Kirkcudbrightshire .

When his father died on April 25, 1922, he inherited his Scottish peerage as Lord Sinclair . From December 10, 1923 until his death, he was a Scottish representative peer member of the House of Lords .

From his marriage to Violet Frances Kennedy on January 31, 1906, he had two children:

• Patricia Mary St Clair (1912–1996) ⚭ Lt.-Col. Charles Archibald Richard Coghill († 1975);
• Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair (1914-2004).

When he died in 1957 at the age of 82, his son inherited his title of nobility.

Literature and web links

• Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 3, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 3629.
• Archibald James Murray St. Clair, 7th / 16th Lord Sinclair on thepeerage.com

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles St Clair	Lord Sinclair 1922-1957	Charles St Clair