John Sinclair

John Sinclair (1797–1875) was a Scottish Episcopal minister and author. He is identified in library and public-domain records as a writer as well as a clergyman, and his published work appears to have centered on religion, church history, and devotional subjects.

He served in the Scottish Episcopal Church and is associated with Edinburgh, where he was part of a learned religious world that valued preaching, scholarship, and pastoral writing. The surviving records available online point more clearly to his church career and authorship than to personal anecdotes, so the broad outline of his life is better documented than many finer biographical details.

Today, he is most likely to be encountered through digitized older books and reference listings, where his work offers a window into 19th-century Anglican and Episcopal thought in Scotland.