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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Rev, William Andrew Sinclair

The Rev, William Andrew Sinclair , who was elected a member of the Dunedin Licensing Committee in March, 1903, is vice-president of the Dunedin United Temperance Reform Council, a member of the Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and President of the Dunedin Council of Churches. Mr. Sinclair was born in 1868, in Christchurch, and is a son of Mr. James Sinclair, who now lives in retirement there. He was educated at the public schools and afterwards spent six years in the teaching profession, which he left in 1888 to study for the Wesleyan ministry. Shortly afterwards he went to Auckland and matriculated at the Wesley College, Three Kings, and later on attended the Auckland University for two years. Mr. Sinclair was then appointed to take charge of the Wesleyan circuit at Hastings. Hawke's Bay, and afterwards held a similar position in the Tauranga district. In 1895 he took charge of the Helping Hand Mission in Freeman's Bay, Auckland, and, after four years successful ministry, he became Superintendent of the Dunedin Methodist Central Mission. Mr. Sinclair was married, in 1896, to Miss Ormiston, daughter of the late Mr. Ormiston, of Auckland, and has two children.