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Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland

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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. He was director and vice president of the American British Electric Corporation
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cross engrailed sable, thereon a mullet for difference, Sinclair; the whole within a bordure parted per pale, the dexter side indented gules, the sinister ermine.
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from its inception in 1955. He held both posts until his death. He also helped ensure the publication of English editions of
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He was a director and vice president of the American British Electric Corporation. Known for his affiliation with the
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Exchanges Within; Questions from Everyday Life; Selected Meetings with John Pentland in California. 1955-1984
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on 11 September 1941; the couple had one daughter, Mary Sinclair (born 21 November 1942).
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Lord Pentland married Lucy Elisabeth Babington Smith, daughter of Sir
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Introductions to the Ideas of Gurdjieff: Talks of John Pentland
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Eminent Gurdjieffians: Lord Pentland, by James Moore
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from its formation in 1953 and the President of the
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Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland
AMICE
Gurdjieff Foundation of New York
Gurdjieff Foundation of California
Gurdjieff
Ouspensky
transatlantic
Wellington College
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge Union
World War II
British Army
Combined Production and Resources Board
Work
G. I. Gurdjieff
Henry Babington Smith


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The Times
Debrett's peerage & baronetage 1976
Eminent Gurdjieffians: Lord Pentland, by James Moore
Gurdjieff International Review on Pentland
Introductions to the Ideas of Gurdjieff: Talks of John Pentland

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