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witli Sinclair as " Capfcaiii," and the Rev. James Kinghorn, 

 Minister of St. Peters, as "Cliaplain." This organisation must 

 not be mistaken for either the Cliurch, or Paper Boys' Brigades, 

 pliilantliropic bodies of a like natai'e, but distinct. Mr. Sinclair 

 resigned his official position in the Sunday School in July, 

 1906, after from twenty-six to twenty-seven years close and 

 efficient control, but ever after retained his interest therein. 



Ill 1883, Sinclair became Honoi"ary Secretary of the Young 

 Peoples' Scripture Union of Australasia, a step which accorded 

 well with the predilection and affection always manifested by 

 him towards tlie young. Another of Mr. Sinclair's benevolent 

 activities were the operations of the Sydney City Mission, of 

 which he became a Member of Council in June, 1911. In 

 April, 1912, he was elected to a seat on the Committee of the 

 Bible Society, which he had joined in 1910. 



Mr. Sinclair alwa3's manifested great ijiterest in Missionary 

 work, particularly the labours of the Presbyterian Church in 

 the New Hebrides, associating himself chiefly with his friend, 

 the Rev. Dr. H. A. Robertson. His participation in and pre- 

 dilection for tlie New Hebridean Mission were also the means 

 of adding many valuable specimens to the Museum Collection. 



One of the great objects of his life was the education of the 

 blind, both moral]}', physically, and industrially. In this 

 great cause he became the Hon. Assistant Secretary to the 

 Committee of the Sydney Industrial Blind Institution, 

 Boomerang Street, in 1884, a Member of tlie Committee in 

 1886, and Hon. Secretary in 1887, succeeding Mr. John 

 Dawson, who became Treasurer^; he was thus officially con- 

 nected with this meritorious institution for upwai-ds of thirty- 

 three yeai's. 



A gentle, sin(!ere, unostentatious, upright, truly religious 

 man and gentleman was Sutherland Sinclair, one whom any 

 person might have been proud to call fiiend. He died after 

 protracted illness on 3rd May last in the sixty-sixth year of 

 his age.* 



•= Sydney Industrial Blind Institution. Illustrated Souvenir, 1879- 

 1910 (oblong, Sydney, n.d.) 



■* For many of the facts in this l)rief notice I am indebted to Dr. Eric 

 Sinclair, Inspector-General of the Insane, New South Wales, who 

 afforded me access to some of Mr. Sinclair's private memoranda. 



