Andrew Sinclair
Andrew Annandale Sinclair (born 1935) is a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and filmmaker. He was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Biography
Born in Oxford, UK, Sinclair did his National Service with the Coldstream Guards and wrote a novel and later a screenplay based on the experience, called The Breaking of Bumbo (1959).
He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967. His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan and Francis Bacon. Sinclair is married to the writer and socialite Sonia Melchett.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972.
Personal life
Andrew Sinclair married 1st Marianne Alexandre in 1960 divorced and had one son Timon Alexandre Sinclair.
Married 2nd (17 October 1972) Miranda Seymour divorced (6 June 1984) had one son Merlin George Sinclair , daughter of George Fitroy Seymour cadet branch of Marquess of Hertford and Duke of Somerset of Thrumpton Hall , Thrumpton , Nottinghamshire and Rosemary Nest Scott-Ellis daughter of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden (1880–1946)
Andrew Sinclair (politician)
Andrew Sinclair (1861 – 28 June 1938) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
He was born in Dunfermline to cabinetmaker Richard Sinclair and Anne Dewar. He migrated to Australia around 1893 and managed a joinery department. On 30 March 1899 he married Sarah Jane Clark, with whom he had three sons. He was a member of the Australian Socialist League from 1893 to 1894 and was on the staff of the Australian Workman. In 1912 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor nominee. He left the party in the conscription split in 1916 and became a Nationalist, remaining in the Legislative Council until its reconstitution in 1934. Sinclair died at Ashfield in 1938.
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Andrew Sinclair (botanist)
Andrew Sinclair (13 April 1794 – 26 March 1861) was a British surgeon who was notable for his botanical collections. He served as New Zealand's second Colonial Secretary.
Early life
Sinclair was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland on 13 April 1794 into a middle-class family. He was the son of John Sinclair, a weaver, and of Agnes Renfrew. He studied medicine at Glasgow University College from 1814 to 1816 and then trained as a surgeon for a year at Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He completed his tertiary education at the University of Edinburgh, from where he graduated as Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1818.
Royal Navy
Sinclair entered the navy as an assistant surgeon in 1822 and became a surgeon in 1829. Between 1823 and 1833, he served on the HMS Owen Glendower, stationed mainly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean Sea. Much of his spare time was taken up with collecting botanical and zoological samples, many of which he sent to the British Museum.
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