Background
His father founded the family linen firm of Thomas Sinton & Company Limited. (flax spinners).
county councillor High Sheriff
His father founded the family linen firm of Thomas Sinton & Company Limited. (flax spinners).
Maynard Sinton attended school at Kendal, Westmoreland and at Newtown School, Waterford.
Sinton was the eldest son, and heir, of Thomas Sinton of Laurelvale House. 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 Maynard Bunbury (1916-1940), killed in action in France with the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Before the Second World War the family employed over 20 staff on the estate including two chauffeurs, a governess (a Mission Glenda Rowe), cooks, servants and gardeners.
They kept racehorses and a pack of beagles, as Mr. Sinton was a leading light at "big shoots" and Irish gun dog 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 Royal Irish Automobile Club, the United Service Club, Dublin, Stephen"s Green Club, Dublin, the Union Club, Belfast and the County, Armagh.