Spencer Fitzroy Cram-Sinclair Nicholas - insegna

Senior cadet of the Scottish Lords Sinclair(c.1410/49) and Earls of Caithness(1455),formerly the last Norwegian dynastic 'Prince'-Jarls [founded c.892/4] of Orkney(invested 1379-resigned 1470);receiving misc. lands in Co.Fife,etc.,incl. Ravenscraig,although Dysart was held earlier(1364).
Selective family lands in the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland,initially held under feudal law, such as those of Sir William Sinclair,1st of Warsetter(from 1500/4),Justice of Orkney(c.1487/9-1522),were gradually feudalised,with the main estates,under his lineal great-grandson Hew/Hugh Sinclair,Sheriff-Depute of Shetland(1583-7), being est.as the Shetland-based Feudal/Territorial Barony of Br(o)ugh(1563/87).