Clans of Caithness
Caithness (Highland)
Norse-edged corner of the mainland, Sinclair country.
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Families seated in Caithness
Historic ties to Caithness
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Caithness.
- Sir John SinclairThe Caithness baronet who invented the modern social survey and produced The Statistical Account of Scotland, the first comprehensive description of a country by its own inhabitants.
- Charles MackayThe Perth-born journalist whose 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds anatomised the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi collapse and the tulip mania, and has been continuously in print ever since as the foundational popular text of behavioural finance.