Sir Colin Archbald Sinclair KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (24 December 187617 March 1956) was an Australia

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n politician.

Sinclair was born in Inverell

Inverell, New South Wales

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, New South Wales

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 and educated at the New England Grammar School, Armidale

Armidale, New South Wales

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 and the University of Sydney

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. He married Edith Grant in 1916.

Sinclair was elected as the member for Namoi

Electoral district of Namoi

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 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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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 Bank of New South Wales

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. He did not run for re-election in Namoi in 1941.

Sinclair was president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales

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 from 1943 to 1954. He also served as a president of the Australian Club

Australian Club

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. He died in Sydney.

Honours

Sinclair was appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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in 1953.