James Leask Sinclair
1828–95
Scottish-born journalist. Educated in the Orkneys. Worked as clerk for a tea merchant, Leith, circa 1842–7; then worked for a tea merchant in London. Visited the United States for about two years. Returned to Kirkwall, Orkney, where he helped launch the Orkney newspaper, the Orcadian. Moved to London again, returning to Orkney to take over his father’s business, and moved later to Stirling. Emigrated to New Zealand, 1865; worked as journalist on the Southern Cross newspaper in Auckland, and from 1876 as a teacher in Wellington. Retired in 1884 or 1885 and lived outside Auckland.
Source
Saint-Clair 1898, Tee 1998, pp. 21–2.
Bibliography
Saint-Clair, Roland William. 1898. The Saint-Clairs of the Isles. Auckland: H. Brett.
Tee, Garry J. 1998. Professor and Mrs Aldis: mathematics, feminism and astronomy in Victorian Auckland. Southern Stars: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand 38 (1998): 18–27.
