author
F. G. (Frederick Granville) Sinclair
1858–1914
A late-Victorian zoologist with a close eye for small creatures, he wrote on myriapods and other invertebrates and contributed to major natural history works of his time. His scientific career is also remembered under his earlier name, F. G. Heathcote.
1 Audiobook
The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 05 (of 10)
by Adam Sedgwick, David Sharp, F. G. (Frederick Granville) Sinclair
About the author
Frederick Granville Sinclair (1857/1858–1914), often cited as F. G. Sinclair and earlier as F. G. Heathcote, was a British zoologist associated especially with the study of myriapods such as centipedes and millipedes. Modern library and archival records connect him with both names, which explains why his publications can appear under either form.
His best-known work includes the Myriapods section in The Cambridge Natural History and research papers such as A New Mode of Respiration in the Myriapoda from the early 1890s. Records of later scientific work also show him describing myriapods collected during the Skeat Expedition to the Malay Peninsula, reflecting a steady interest in invertebrate zoology.
Some reference sources describe him as a Scottish zoologist and note that he later became known as Frederick Granville Sinclair after previously publishing as Frederick Granville Heathcote. Because sources differ slightly on whether he was born in 1857 or 1858, it is safest to say that he belonged to the generation of scientists active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that he died in 1914.