Sinclair Related Links 
Motto: Commit Thy Work To God
Music:
The unofficial national anthem of Scotland, written by the late Roy Williamson of "The Corries". Click here for the Lyrics.Clan Sinclair was Honored Clan at the 2004 Grandfather Mountain (NC) Highland Games. Click here for photos and a Games report.
- The Sinclairs of Caithness
- Niven Sinclair article -- Niven is truly an inspiration and has contributed so very much to Clan Sinclair, including the Niven Sinclair Library at Nosshead. Click here for an article published in Ariel, September 20, 2005.
- Interested in the Sinclair Tartan(s)? Look at the right margin of the page.
- Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Clan Sinclair Trust - The Chief's awesome project is bearing fruit!
- Columbus? Ha! Prince Henry Sinclair actually set foot on American soil 94 years before the Columbus voyage! He didn't claim to have "discovered" America, since he knew others had set foot on American soil before him. Visit this web site! Here is more information! Read about the 600th celebration in 1998.
- Prince Henry, Westford Knight, and the Zeno Map - article from Clan Sinclair's Yours Aye, published on the Clan Gunn website. Ok, here's one more site for your pleasure re: Prince Henry.
- William Sinclair, the First Grand Master of Masons in Scotland --- this is a link to the Grand Lodge of Scotland
- Information regarding the selection of the "First Grand Master"
- Earl William St Clair was certainly one of the great illuminati of his day as can be seen from the care and attention which he built into every aspect of his architectural masterpiece: Rosslyn Chapel. There are carvings representing everything from fallen angels to a menagerie of animals, from one hundred green men to a cornucopia of physic plants, from the grotesque figures of the master mason to the weeping face of the apprentices mother, from the danse macabre to the head of Robert the Bruce. Earl William was writing a story in stone and, yet, there is only one quotation inscribed in the whole building. It is on one of the lintels in the South aisle. It reads: ...... Click here for a narrative written by Niven Sinclair, London
- Rosslyn Chapel is a neat web with interesting Sinclair history. Rosslyn Chapel was founded in 1446 by Sir William St. Clair, third and last St. Clair, Prince of Orkney.
- Visit Orkney's Maeshowe and read about this historic site and the Winter Solstice! Fascinating!
- The host of this website, Mel Sinclair and Free Masonry
- The Sinclair Engrailed Cross, the meaning of: by Niven Sinclair
- Sinclair Landmarks in History, a look at Sinclair battles and castles
- The Sinclairs of Caithness; the lordly line of high St. Clair, with map of ancestral home area of the Sinclairs. There is a superstition that it is unlucky for a Sinclair to cross the Ord on a Monday wearing green....(gulp!)
- Sinclair Girnigoe Castle - History and many, many photos!
- A Map of Scottish Clans
- Sinclair Areas, a modern map of the Sinclair Areas in Scotland
- Origin of the Sinclair name and a story that you won't want to miss. Read this first and you'll appreciate the following link ...
- Our name has been repeated on July 16 for more than a thousand years in Saint Clair-sur Epte! "As the dying embers slowly faded all that was left was the memory, hidden in the caverns of the mind, of the friendship extended in the small town and the love the French peasants hold for the progenitor of our name. We are here for only the flicking of a eye, each man is allotted only so many heartbeats. Our name lives, well beyond the days of our lives in the l'Île de France, as thousands of men and women, for over a thousand years, have called our name in soft evening air." Sinclair of France
- OK, from the above we know the origin of the Sinclair name, but from *whom* did we descend? Rollo the Viking? Read on!
- The Sinclair Motto - "Commit Thy Work to God" according to our hereditary Clan Chief, Malcolm Caithness Sinclair, "It is probable that our motto was taken from the Bible and is a quotation from Proverbs 16.3...". From the King James version: "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established."
- Sinclair Family Seal - What's with the "chicken"?
- Are you a Sinclair cousin but with a different last name? Check the listing and if your name is on it join Clan Sinclair! We're a large family!
- Got a "Sinclair" Question? A list of Frequently asked questions...very well done!
- Iain Laird's contributions are abundant and here are a few for your
pleasure:
- Iain Laird's Family History Project gives a personal look at Iain's family and surrounding Caithness, Scotland. This is a very well done site with some photos that you must see!
- The Origin of The Saltire, Scotland's National Flag, a message with other links.
- The Caithness Family History Society, another page by webmaster Iain Laird.
- Caithness Community website has some interesting information re the area. There were some Sinclair links but the link was dead the last time that I checked.
- Caithness Courier, the news in the Caithness area
- John O'Groat Journal Online - more news in the area
- Andrew Spratt's prints and narratives of Castles/battles as they may have looked in Medieval Scotland. Excellent works by this very talented and knowledgeable man, hosted on this website!
- Caithness, the County Castle of Scotland!
- Castle Mey - "HIDDEN ROOMS & SECRET ORDERS. For the Queen Mother it was her own special place where she felt at peace. For previous occupants, the Castle of Mey appears to have been anything but tranquil. Cryptic chambers, secret societies, cabbalistic orders and hidden passages leading to the shore, are pointing to lifestyles rather at odds with its 20th Century image."
- Dirlot Castle - "The Sinclairs of Caithness, the Gunns, Cheyne’s, and the Sutherlands, all stemming from Rex Deus bloodlines, had knowledge of sacred geometry and geomancy. The Sinclairs of Caithness built over twenty houses and castles in honour of the Caithness ley lines. Most of these ley lines centre at Dirlot, ..."
- What!?! Scotsmen with no Kilt? No Pipes? and worse! August 1, remember it well! Read on about the Act of Proscription and the International Tartan Day website (Act and Repeal brief summary).
- It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. From The Declaration of Arbroath 1320
- Did Thomas Jefferson have the Declaration of Arbroath nearby when the Declaration of Independence was written? Click here for a number similar phrases. You may be surprised!
- Have you ever driven the Sinclair Militor? This vehicle was produced in Springfield Mass from 1911 to 1918 and in Bridgeport Connecticut from 1918 to 1922.
- The Sinclair Dinosaur Exhibit has been built by the Sinclair Refining Company at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
- King Arthur and the Holy Grail and tons of links!
- The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (SMOTJ) - the Modern day Knights Templar
- The Knights Templar and link with the Holy Grail
- The Knights Templar page is another excellent brief history...worth a read.
- The Trial of the Knights Templars
- Knights Templar Psalm (Psalm 115)
- The Knights Templar Hymn, By Rudyard Kipling, 1934
- The modern Templar order - SMOTJ - The Preceptory of Prince Henry St Clair stands within the grounds of the Nosshead Lighthouse Estate, which also includes the Clan Sinclair Study Centre and Niven Sinclair Library.
- The Fourteenth Degree Ring of the Scottish Rite
- A great collection of Scottish Folk Songs
- More Scottish (and other) Folk Songs, etc.
- Hogmany or New Year's Eve in
Scotland
- Hogmanay as told by a Scotsman
- Hogmanay website, Edinburgh
- Auld Lang Syne - the poem, music, translation, and history
- OK, are you convinced that reading more about this "Sinclair" family might just be interesting? Click here for some recommended reading.
- I'll list this book separately. It's from the Grand Lodge of Scotland by Father Richard Augustine Hay (1661 – c.1736), a Roman Catholic priest, who was Chaplain to the St. Clair of Rosslyn and in that capacity had access to all of the family’s papers.
- The Most Important Event In History - and follow the link at the bottom of that page.