Thomas Sinclair, C.B., M.D., F.R.C.S.(ENG.)

RI HE death of Coloniel Ihliomiias Sinclair, C.1B., M.D., F.R.C.S.(Eng.), sometime Professor of Surgery in the Queen's University of Belfast, at the age of 82, terminates a career of outstanding distinictioni in the professionl of medicine. He belonge(d to a well-known and highly respectedl family, closely connectedl with the industrial and charitable life ol the citN-. He was ullllnarried an(l tlhroughout his professionial life enjoyedl the care of a devote(l sister. For the last year Ihis health had been failing, but it xwas onlyl in September that the onset of serious symptoms le(d to the resignation of his seat ais representative of the Queen's University in the Imperial Parlianmenit. For somiie mlontths paiin and sullerinig had been his constant companions, but they) were bornle w\ithi a lortitude anid a resignation unaffected by hlis all-too-accurate knowxledge of his own disease anid of its inevitable terminiationi. For many o0l( Queenismen the world over the passing of Tlom Sinclair wrill sever a link with the past, as it will recall a beloved teacher, for whom the! will alwavs have the (leepest admiration and affection.