Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland

Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (6 June 1907 – 14 February 1984) was a Scottish peer. He inherited the title from his father, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, in 1925. A transatlantacist, Baron Pentland was a businessman and member of the House of Lords who spent much of his career conducting government and commercial affairs with the United States.

Education and career

After Wellington College, Pentland inherited the title, aged only eighteen. He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with MA in 1929. He was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1929. He qualified as a civil engineer (A.M.I.C.E.)

During World War Two he served in the British Army and later appointed Assistant Secretary of the Combined Production and Resources Board, 1944-1945 at Washington D.C. Known for his affiliation with the Work of G. I. Gurdjieff, he became president of the American Gurdjieff Foundation upon its establishment in 1953, retaining the position until his death in 1984.

Family

Lord Pentland married Lucy Elisabeth Smith on 11 September 1941; the couple had one daughter, Mary Sinclair (born 21 November 1942).

Books by Lord Pentland

Exchanges Within; Questions from Everyday Life; Selected Meetings with John Pentland in California. 1955-1984. Continuum:New York. 1997

External links

• Eminent Gurdjieffians:Lord Pentland, by James Moore. The only biography of Lord Pentland
• Gurdjieff International Review on Pentland
• Introductions to the Ideas of Gurdjieff: Talks of John Pentland