Pentland, John Sinclair, Baron, 1860-1925

Occupation
Politicians
Cabinet officers
Colonial administrators
Governor of Madras

found: Concise DNB, 1901-1970, 1982:p. 610 (Sinclair, John, first Baron Pentland, 1860-1925, politician)

found: The Right Honourable John Sinclair, Lord Pentland. G.C.S.I., 1928:p. 1 (Lord Pentland; John, eldest son of Captain and Mrs. George Sinclair, was born, Edinburgh on the 7th July 1860) p. 4 (...their first child John, called Jack by his family...) p. 295 (Governor of Fort St. George at Madras, 1912-1919; died on 11 January 1925)

found: Oxford DNB online, 6 April 2016(Sinclair, John, first Baron Pentland (1860-1925), politician and administrator in India; born Edinburgh, on 7 July 1860; joined the army and served in Ireland from 1881 and Sudan in 1885; left the army in 1887 and re-entered parliament at a by-election for Forfarshire; this seat he retained until he was made a peer in 1909; From 1900 to 1905 he was Scottish Liberal whip; On 12 July 1904 he married Lady Marjorie Adeline [Gordon] (1880-1970); appointed secretary for Scotland in 1905; made a peer (as Baron Pentland of Lyth, Caithness) in February 1909, and in 1912 he was appointed governor of Madras ... until 1919; sworn of the privy council in 1905 and created GCIE in 1912 and GCSI in 1918; died at his home at Frognal End, Hampstead, London, on 11 January 1925, and was buried at Dean cemetery, Edinburgh, on 15 January)