| 词条 | Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = Earl of Caithness |honorific-suffix = PC |image = Official portrait of The Earl of Caithness crop 2.jpg |office1 = Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |primeminister1 = Margaret Thatcher John Major |term_start1 = 14 July 1990 |term_end1 = 15 April 1992 |predecessor1 = The Lord Brabazon of Tara |successor1 = Tristan Garel-Jones |office2 = Paymaster-General |primeminister2 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start2 = 25 July 1989 |term_end2 = 14 July 1990 |predecessor2 = Peter Brooke |successor2 = Richard Ryder |office3 = Minister of State for Housing |primeminister3 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start3 = 25 July 1988 |term_end3 = 25 July 1989 |predecessor3 = The Lord Waldegrave of North Hill |successor3 = Michael Howard |office4 = Minister of State for Environment |primeminister4 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start4 = 10 January 1988 |term_end4 = 25 July 1988 |predecessor4 = The Lord Belstead |successor4 = Michael Howard |office5 = Minister of State for Home Affairs |primeminister5 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start5 = 10 September 1986 |term_end5 = 10 January 1988 |predecessor5 = Giles Shaw |successor5 = The Earl Ferrers |office6 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport |primeminister6 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start6 = 2 September 1985 |term_end6 = 10 September 1986 |predecessor6 = David Mitchell |successor6 = The Lord Brabazon of Tara |office7 = Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |primeminister7 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start7 = 8 May 1984 |term_end7 = 2 September 1985 |predecessor7 = The Lord Lucas of Chilworth |successor7 = The Viscount Davidson |office8 = Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |term_start8 = 2 December 1969 Hereditary Peerage |predecessor8 = Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|11|03}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = Conservative |alma_mater = Marlborough College Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester }} Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (born 3 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. He is also 20th Lord Berriedale, 15th Baronet Sinclair, of Canisbay, Co. Caithness, Nova Scotia, and chief of Clan Sinclair. He is the Chief Executive of the Clan Sinclair Trust. EducationSinclair was educated at Blairmore School, Aberdeenshire (then Marlborough College), and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. House of Lords and political officesMalcolm Caithness served as a House of Lords government-whip under Margaret Thatcher from 1984 to 1985. He then moved to the Department of Transport as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, serving until 1986, the year when he became Minister of State at the Home Office. In 1988, he was once appointed Minister of State at the Department of Environment. In 1989, he became Paymaster-General and a Minister of State in the Treasury.[1] In 1990, Caithness was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign Office, and then, in 1992, back to the Department of Transport. He married Diana Caroline Coke (1953–1994) in 1975. He was made a privy counsellor in 1990. With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Caithness, along with most other hereditary peers, lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was, however, elected as one of the 90 representative peers designed under the provisions of the act to remain in the House of Lords. He has since blocked further reform of the Lords, tabling 'wrecking' amendments to a draft Bill to abolish by-elections for hereditary peers, proposed by Lord Grocott in 2018. [2] Caithness is an opponent of fractional-reserve banking.[3] Caithness was a trustee of Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust, from its inception in 1996 until 2016. In 1999, he helped found a heritage charity, the Clan Sinclair Trust, the aim of which is the preservation and conservation of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, near Wick in Caithness. He serves as chief executive and has been responsible for getting the castle listed by the World Monuments Fund in its Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites in the World in 2002, the fundraising and overseeing the remedial works which has allowed the castle to be accessible and open to the public. Personal lifeIn January 1994, Caithness resigned from his post at the Ministry of Transport, following the suicide of his wife, Diana Caroline Coke.[4] In 2004, he married Leila C. Jenkins in Rosslyn Chapel, whom he'd met at Ascot,[5] and he filed for divorce a year later.[4] His children are Lady Iona Alexandra Sinclair (b. 1978), and Alexander James Richard Sinclair, Lord Berriedale (b. 1981). Clan SinclairThere are Clan Sinclair associations in the UK, Australia, Canada, Italy and the USA. Malcolm Sinclair has organized the first Clan Sinclair International Gathering in Caithness in 2000, and then again in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012 (in Norway) and 2015.{{cn|date=March 2018}} In 2009, Sinclair, referring to the role of Clan Chiefs, said "I do not believe there is an obligation towards the clan in any formal sense. For many years I took no interest in the Clan because I was too busy earning a living and bringing up the family...If a chief can give the time, particularly to the Diaspora, then there are huge rewards for everyone and I would hope that most chiefs can do that."[6] Ancestry{{ahnentafel|collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness |2= 2. Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness |3= 3. Madeleine Gabrielle de Pury |4= 4. The Rev. Hon. Charles Augustus Sinclair |5= 5. Mary Ann Harman |6= 6. Hermann Edouard de Pury |7= 7. Margaret Gwyn Jefferies |8= 8. James Sinclair, 16th Earl of Caithness |9= 9. Janet MacLeod |10= 10. The Rev. Edward Harman |12= 12. David Francois de Pury |13= 13. Mary Blakeway I'Anson |16= 16. John Sutherland Sinclair |17= 17. Euphemia Buchan |18= 18. Roderick MacLeod |19= 19. Margaret Gambier MacLeod |24= 24. Louis Ferdinand de Pury |25= 25. Marie Henriette Blakeway |26= 26. Edward I'Anson |27= 27. Catherine Blakeway }} References1. ^Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 1 (Wilmington, DE: Burke's Peerage, 2003) page 641. 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Garland|first1=Jessica|title=A handful of hereditary peers are trying to stifle reform – they are on the wrong side of history|url=https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/a-handful-of-hereditary-peers-are-trying-to-stifle-reform-they-are-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/|website=Electoral Reform Society}} 3. ^[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/90205-0003.htm#09020540000096/ House of Lords record, February 2009], Hansard archives 4. ^1 Sinclair, Robert (2013) The Sinclairs of Scotland, AuthorHouse, 12 June 2013, {{ISBN|978-1481795708}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/earl-of-caithness-marries-american-businesswoman-1-562067|title=Earl of Caithness marries American businesswoman|publisher=The Scotsman|date=15 November 2004|accessdate=August 22, 2010|location=Edinburgh|first=Louise|last=Ward}} 6. ^Chief to Chief - Malcolm Sinclair, The Earl of Caithness, Jamie Sempill, 15 July 2009 External links
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