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Dr William Angus Sinclair OBE TD FRSE DLitt (1905–1954) was a 20th century Scottish philosopher. LifeHe was born in Edinburgh on 27 September 1905 the son of Captain John Sinclair of the Mercantile Marine and his wife Elizabeth Campbell. He was educated at George Watson's College then studied Philosophy at Edinburgh University graduating MA. In 1932 he began lecturing in Logic at Edinburgh University. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Norman Kemp Smith, James Pickering Kendall, Ernest Ludlam and Francis Albert Eley Crew.[1] In the Second World War he served as a gunnery officer with the Royal Artillery in Italy. In the final year he served as Assistant Adjutant General organising the supply of personnel to the airborne divisions. In 1945 he stood as a Conservative candidate in local elections but his politics changed and soon after he affiliated himself to the Labour Party.[2] He died on 21 December 1954 lost in a snow blizzard in the Cairngorms[3] whilst serving in his capacity as a Lt Colonel in the Officer Training Corps section of the Territorial Army whilst trying to reach shelter at the officer training camp in the Grampians.[4] His body was taken to Glenmore Lodge. Publications
FamilyIn August 1954 he married Susan Archer Cameron (d.2010). MemorialsThe Sinclair Hut (sometimes rather grandly entitled the Sinclair Memorial Hall) was a shelter bothy at the Chalamain Gap in the Cairngorms erected by the OTC and named in Sinclair's honour. Sadly the bothy was demolished in 1991, for reason of continual graffiti.[5] References1. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinclair, William Angus}}2. ^https://cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/the-sinclair-hut-one-of-the-cairngorms-lost-bothies/ 3. ^Glasgow Herald 23 December 1954 4. ^http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100507768 5. ^https://cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/the-sinclair-hut-one-of-the-cairngorms-lost-bothies/ 8 : 1905 births|1954 deaths|People from Edinburgh|People educated at George Watson's College|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Academics of the University of Edinburgh|Scottish philosophers|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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