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{{short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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'''Baron Sinclair of Cleeve''', of [[Cleeve, Somerset|Cleeve]] in the [[County of Somerset]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40981 |date=22 January 1957 |page=502}}</ref> It was created on 21 January 1957 for the businessman and public servant, [[Robert Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve|Robert Sinclair]]. He notably served as President of the [[Imperial Tobacco Company]] and as Director-General of Army Requirements at the [[War Office]] from 1939 to 1942 and as Chief Executive at the [[Ministry of Production]] from 1943 to 1945. {{As of|2010}} the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1985.

==Barons Sinclair of Cleeve (1957)==
*[[Robert Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve|Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve]] (1893–1979)
*John Robert Kilgour Sinclair, 2nd Baron Sinclair of Cleeve (1919–1985)
*John Lawrence Robert Sinclair, 3rd Baron Sinclair of Cleeve (b. 1953). 

There is no heir to the title.<ref name=DP>{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Sinclair of Cleeve, Baron |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=3191–3193 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}</ref>

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Sinclair of Cleeve Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Or a cross engrailed Sable in the first quarter a sword erect Proper on a chief also Sable three martlets Gold
|crest = In front of a saltire Argent a dove Proper beaked and legged Gules in the beak an olive branch also Proper.
|supporters = Dexter, a griffin Sable; sinister, a unicorn Argent; each gorged with a Or white may leaved and flowered Proper.
|motto = Credo (I Believe) <ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage |date=2000}}</ref>}}

==References==
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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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[[Category:Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1957]]