Sir Colin Archibald Sinclair (24 December 187617 March 1956) was an Australian politician.

Early life

Sinclair was born in Inverell,

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and educated at the New England Grammar School,

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and the

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( BA 1899, LLB 1905). He married Edith Grant in 1916. Sinclair was elected as the member for Namoi in the

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in 1932, and was Secretary for Lands from February 1938 to November 1940, when he resigned after suggestions that he had a conflict of interest, as a result of his recent appointment as a director of the

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. He did not run for re-election in Namoi in 1941. Sinclair was president of the

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from 1943 to 1954 and President of the Bank of New South Wales from 1952 to 1954. He also served as a president of the Australian Club. He died in Sydney. Sinclair was appointed a

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(KBE) in the 1953 New Year Honours.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinclair, Colin Archibald 1876 births 1956 deaths Australian pastoralists National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire University of Sydney alumni Presidents of the Bank of New South Wales