George Sinclair (politician)
English politician, died 2005
Sir George Evelyn Sinclair (6 November 1912 – 21 September 2005) was Conservative MP for Dorking, Surrey, 1964–79.
Education
Sinclair was a bright pupil at Abingdon School from 1923 to 1931, and one of a group known as the 'Grundy boys' – named after the then headmaster. His brothers, James Francis Sinclair and Lindsay Sinclair, also attended the school. Sinclair left the school having become Head of School, Captain of Boats, Captain of Cricket, Captain of Rugby and having won the Pembroke Scholarship. In 1969 he returned to the school as a governor. He read Greats at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Career
In 1936, Sinclair joined the Colonial Service and was posted to the Gold Coast.
He served with the Royal West African Frontier Force during World War II. After the war he returned to the Gold Coast, then served in Togoland. He was deputy governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1960, during the EOKA troubles. He was appointed OBE in 1950, CMG in 1956 and knighted for his Colonial Service work in 1960.
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