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Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Thurso
KT CMG PC
The Air Ministry, 1939-1945. CH10270.jpg
Archibald Sinclair as Secretary of State for Air during the Second World War
Leader of the Liberal Party
In office
26 November 1935 – 15 June 1945
Deputy Percy Harris (1940–1945)
Preceded by Sir Herbert Samuel
Succeeded by Clement Davies
Secretary of State for Air
In office
11 May 1940 – 23 May 1945
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt
Succeeded by Harold Macmillan
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party
In office
4 November 1931 – 26 November 1935
Leader Herbert Samuel
Preceded by Herbert Samuel
Succeeded by Percy Harris 1940–1945
Secretary of State for Scotland
In office
25 August 1931 – 28 September 1932
Monarch George V
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by William Adamson
Succeeded by Sir Godfrey Collins
Liberal Chief Whip
In office
1930 – 25 August 1931
Leader David Lloyd George
Preceded by Robert Hutchison
Succeeded by Goronwy Owen
Member of Parliament
for Caithness and Sutherland
In office
15 November 1922 – 5 July 1945
Preceded by Leicester Harmsworth
Succeeded by Eric Gandar Dower
Personal details
Born Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair
22 October 1890 (1890-10-22)
Chelsea, London, England
Died 15 June 1970 (1970-06-16) (aged 79)
Nationality British
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Marigold Forbes
Alma mater Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, KT CMG PC (22 October 1890 – 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.

Born in Chelsea, London, Sinclair was the son of a Scottish father and an American mother. He was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet. In 1912, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, as fourth Baronet, of Ulbster. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1910.

Sinclair served on the Western Front during the First World War and rose to the rank of Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment. He served as second-in-command to Winston Churchill, when Churchill commanded the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Ploegsteert Wood sector of the Western Front in 1916, after Churchill had resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty. They formed a lasting friendship, which would become a significant political alliance in later decades. From 1919 to 1921, he served as Personal Military Secretary to Churchill, when he returned to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for War, then accompanied him to the Colonial Office as Private Secretary.


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