Author:John Sinclair (1754-1835)

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John Sinclair
(1754–1835)

portrait by Henry Raeburn

Works

• The Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. I (1791), II and III (1792), IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII (1793), IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII (1794), XIV, XV, XVI (1795), XVII and XVIII (1796), XIX (1797), XX (1798), and XXI (1799)
• Observations on the Scottish Dialect (1782)
• History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, a standard treatise, which was long one of the chief authorities on the subject, 2 vols. 1784; reissued in three parts 1789–90.
• General View of the Agriculture of the Northern Counties and Islands of Scotland (1795)
• Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects (1802)
• Account of the Systems of Husbandry adopted in the more improved Districts of Scotland (2 vols. 1812)
• Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian (1807)
• Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland (2 parts, 1825)

Works about Sinclair

• "Sinclair, (Sir) John (Bart.)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Sinclair, John (1754-1835)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.