BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. i l
The foreign correspondence of Sir John was extensive. The fame of his
works, and the intimacies he had formed during his tours, created great demands
on his time. He held no less than twenty-five diplomas from institutions in
France, Flanders, Prussia, Austria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Germany, Sweden,
Denmark, Russia, Italy, the United States, and the West Indies. With Presidents
Washington, Jefferson, and Adams he had frequent and interesting communications,
as well as with almost every person of note in the old world;
while few foreigners of any distinction visited Scotland without letters of introduction
to him.
“ In person, Sir John Sinclair was tall and spare ; and even in his advanced
years he was remarkable for the elasticity of his gait and erect carriage. From
his characteristic orderly habits, he was exceedingly neat in his dress ; and he
is said to have been, in youth, distinguished for his manly beauty. In the
private walks of life, and in the exercise of the domestic virtues, he was a perfect
model of the Christian gentleman, and with perhaps as few of the faults and
frailties inherent in poor human nature, as almost ever falls to the share of an
individual. He set a noble example to the world of intellectual activity
uniformly directed from almost boyhood to extreme old age.”’
NO. cxcm.
LORD STONEFIELD.
JOHN CAMPBELL, son of Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Stohefield, many years
Sheriff-Depute of the shires of Argyle and Bute, was admitted to the bar in
1748, and elevated to the bench in 1762, when he assumed the title of Lord
Stonefield. In 1787 he succeeded Lord Gardenstone as a Lord of Justiciary.
This latter appointment he resigned in 1702, but he retained his seat on the
bench till his death, which took place upon the 19th of June 1801, having
By his first marriage, Sir John had two daughters-Hannah, authoress of a popular work on
the principles of Christ@ faith, and whose memoirs are well known ; and Janet, married to the
late Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Baronet. By his second he had a large family-leaving at his
death, the Hon. Lady Sinclair with six sons and five daughters. The eldest, Sir George, was, during
twenty-six years, Member of Parliament for the county of Caithness ; Alexander, formerly of the
H.EI.C.S., resided in Edinburgh ; John, M.A. and F.R.S.E., author of “Dissertations Vindicating
the Church of England ”-an “ Essay on Church Patronage ’I-“ Memoirs of the Life and Works
of Sir John Sinclair,” etc., was one of the ministers of St. Paul’s Chapel, York Place ; Archibald,
a Captain in the Royal Navy ; William, Rector of Pulborough ; and Godfrey, the youngest son, was
for some time engaged in the office of a Writer to the Signet. Of the danghtem, one married George
fourth Earl of Glasgow ; another Stair Stewart, Esq., of Glasserton and Phpgill ; and Misses Diana,
Margaret, and Catherine, remained unmarried. The last-named, Catherine, was the well-known
authoress of “ Scotland and the Scotch,” “ Modern Accomplishments,” and numerous other works.
She died in 1864, and a monument waa erected to her memory in St. Colme Street, Edinburgh.
1 John, afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex and Vicar of Kensington, NBS the author of “Sketches of Old
Times and Distant Places,” published in 1875, in which year he also died.
