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Mitchison, R. 'Sinclair, Sir John, first baronet (1754-1835)', in: H. C. G. Matthew and B. Harrison (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004). Online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman, January 2008. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25627

Emery, F. A. '"Geographical description" of Scotland prior to the statistical accounts', Scottish Studies 3 (1959), 1-16

Gibson, J. A. 'The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1834-1845: Correct publication dates of the parish accounts', The Scottish Naturalist 107 (1995), 3-52.

Groome, F. H. (ed.) Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical (Edinburgh, 1882-85).

Mitchison, R. Agricultural Sir John: the life of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1754-1835 (London, 1962).

Sinclair, J. Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland (London, 1826).

Smout, T. C. A history of the Scottish people, 1560-1830 (Glasgow, 1972).

Steven, M. Parish life in eighteenth-century Scotland: a review of the Old Statistical Account (Aberdeen, 1995).

Withers, C. W. J. 'How Scotland came to know itself: geography, national identity and the making of a nation, 1680-1790', Journal of Historical Geography 21 (1995), 371-97.

Withrington, D. 'What was distinctive about the Scottish Enlightenment?', in J. Carter and J. Pittock (eds.), Aberdeen and the Enlightenment (Aberdeen, 1987), 9-19.