William Maynard Sinton, JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (1 February 1860 – 31 December 1942) was High Sheriff

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 of County Armagh

County Armagh

-History:Ancient Armagh was the territory of the Ulaid before the fourth century AD. It was ruled by the Red Branch, whose capital was Emain Macha near Armagh. The site, and subsequently the city, were named after the goddess Macha...

, an Ulster Unionist County Council

County council

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lor for Armagh and industrialist.

Sinton was the eldest son, and heir, of Thomas Sinton

Thomas Sinton

Thomas Sinton, JP was an Irish industrialist and magistrate. Sinton made a significant impact upon the Irish linen trade; not least establishing the village of Laurelvale, County Armagh....

 of Laurelvale House

Laurelvale

Mullavilly-Laurelvale is a village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was once two settlements but they have since merged. The village is 3 miles south of Portadown and 1.5 miles northwest of Tandragee. In the 2001 Census Mullavilly-Laurelvale had a population of 1,258.-Name:The village covers...

. His father founded the family linen

Linen

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 firm of Thomas Sinton & Co. Ltd. (flax

Flax

Flax is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is native to the region extending from the eastern Mediterranean to India and was probably first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent...

 spinners). Maynard Sinton attended school at Kendal

Kendal

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, Westmoreland

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 and at Newtown School, Waterford

Newtown School, Waterford

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. Sinton's cousin was the Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

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 winner John Alexander Sinton

John Alexander Sinton

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. He continued to manage the firm following his father's death and took up residence at Ballyards Castle, Armagh.

Maynard married, on 16 March 1905, Myra Atkinson, of Park View, Tandragee and had two children,

• Brigid Maynard (1914-1975),
• Second Lieutenant
  Second Lieutenant
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   Maynard Bunbury (1916-1940), killed in action
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   in France with the Royal Scots Fusiliers
  Royal Scots Fusiliers
  -The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot :The regiment was raised in Scotland in 1678 by Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, de jure 5th Earl of Mar for service against the rebel covenanting forces during the Second Whig Revolt . They were used to keep the peace and put down brigands, mercenaries, and...
  
  .

Before the Second World War the family employed over 20 staff on the estate including two chauffeurs, a governess (a Miss Glenda Rowe), cooks, servants and gardeners. They kept racehorses and a pack of beagle

Beagle

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s, as Mr. Sinton was a leading light at 'big shoots' and Irish gun dog

Gun dog

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 trials. The Ballyards cup was presented every year at the Armagh point-to-point races.
One of the first owners of a motor car in the county the registration on his Clement was IB 1. In 1893 he was the guest-of-honour at the opening of County Armagh Golf Club. He was a member of the Irish Automobile Club, the United Service Club, Dublin, St. Stephen's Green

St. Stephen's Green

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 Club, Dublin, the Union Club, Belfast

Belfast

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 and the County, Armagh.

Upon his death, without a male heir, his main business interests passed to his brother, Frederick Buckby Sinton, of Banford House, Tullylish

Tullylish

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. Maynard Sinton was buried at the Friends' (Quaker) Meeting House, Moyallon, near Gilford.