Owen Sinclair
Owen Sinclair (13 November 1862 – 17 June 1927) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Port Melbourne to sugar boiler Charles Sinclair and Sarah Duff. He worked as a glassblower for Victorian Railways and then as a tobacconist in Port Melbourne. On 27 December 1887 he married Emma Margaret Hudson, with whom he had three children. He served on Port Melbourne City Council from 1906 to 1927. In 1915 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Port Melbourne, representing the Labor Party, but he lost his party endorsement ahead of the 1917 state election and was defeated running as an independent. Sinclair died in Port Melbourne in 1927.[1]
References
- Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Sinclair, Owen". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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| Preceded by George Sangster |
Member for Port Melbourne 1915–1917 |
Succeeded by James Murphy |
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