Andrew Sinclair
1794–1861
Scottish surgeon, naturalist, and colonial administrator. Assistant surgeon, Royal Navy, 1822–32; surgeon, 1835–43. Collected botanical and zoological specimens for the British Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Settled in New Zealand, 1843; colonial secretary, 1844–56; became a member of the legislative council in 1844. Elected a fellow of the Linnean Society, 1857. In 1858, began collecting material for Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Handbook of the New Zealand flora (J. D. Hooker 1864–7). Drowned on Julius von Haast’s geological surveying expedition to the headwaters of the Rangitata river, Canterbury province.
Source
DNZB.
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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