Niven Sinclair is a very successful business man, an enthusiastic amateur writer and philanthropist and was chairman of the Scottish NGO Friends of Rosslyn.

The Voyage of Prince Henry St Clair

Niven Sinclair is an advocate of the possibility that Prince Henry St Clair, sailed to America in 1398, 100 years before Christopher Columbus.

According to Niven Sinclair, a fleet of the Scottish Knights Templar, under Prince Henry Sinclair, Lord of Rosslyn, and the renowned Venetian sailors, the brothers Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, sailed from Orkney to Nova Scotia. He claims, despite a lack of confirmed evidence, that there is Templar architecture in Nova Scotia and the oral history of the Mi'kmaq as proof. The Templar Order had been suppressed for the better part of 100 years before Henry Sinclair's voyage and, thought there are suggestions of survival in Scotland. Although there is no confirmed Templar architecture in Nova Scotia to point to a pre-Columbian European visitation to North America. The oral history material he has collected is published and available to scholars ("Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt"<ref>http://www.clansinclaircanada.ca/articles/beyond.htm</ref>). The theory is all the more underlined by claims that the various stone sculptures of lillies in Rosslyn Chapel are actually indigenous American plants and vegetation Chapel. These carvings were effected by the Sinclair builders of Rosslyn decades before [[Christopher Colombus sailed to the Americas.

The Rosslyn Chapel Project

During the nineties, Sinclair worked extensively on the Rosslyn Chapel project along with Deborah Benstead, author Stephen Prior, historian Robert Brydon and the then-curator of the Chapel Judith Fiskin, covering the mystical beliefs and practices on the Knights Templar in Rosslyn. Scotland. Niven has also contributed countless hours to charity, and is a valued member of the Sinclair Clan worldwide.

External links

• Clan Sinclair Website
• Niven Sinclair's Company

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