ANOTHER LIBERAL PEER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5

ANOTHER LIBERAL PEER.

■■; : v [:,.' SINCLAIR;'K'' ■■••" ,■; [OX TELEGRAra—rnSSS.ASSOCIATION-, -COPIRIOUT.! •'• V- ' .'. > ; ; ::: London; January 28. !' The: Right Hoi. ;Jolin Sinclair, Secretary for Scotland, has been raised to the peerage, with • the : riewvof securing ithe presence in tho - House•'.of.' Lords of a Cabinet Minister : responsible: for } Scottisb/ busiriess.v '•; y! f-'' ■ :■ ; • ;• . ; ;' A ;!'C.-B.» IMINISTER/ / \. ; '' The career-of. the new Lord'is bit off, not juite .benevolently, :the "Pall ITall "Gazette" in-the. following sketch:—"Captain' John Sin-' olairs_ appointment; as Secretary for Scotland was the principal'surprise of. the. Cabinet, but it showed,, at qny.vrate; that •'C.-B.' was well satisfied with his.private secretary; The member for Forfarshireis an active," serious-looking man, born 18G0, and married, to a daughter of Lord Aberdeen, whom he has also served with his .pen.--. ■ His: schooling was Obtained at' the Edinburgh Academy, .and ho entered the Armv from/Sandhurst in .1879: He , got his iuedal and clasp in the Sudan, and retired from the- • "SSL- 1 ?! -^ rs , w i'l l , the.iitlo of captain in 1837.. \ He has tasted the sweets. bitters of politics.■; He failod to get in for "the Ayr Burghs in 1886, and, returned for Dumbartonshire in 1892; was .unseated at the next general .eleotiori; -.- Hβ has represented Forfa'r shire sinoe 189". ' . The Scotch members found him .a-congenial Whip, and his Radicalism is of the colourless kind that Whips wear" ■- -