Surname: Sinclair Forename(s): William b. 1811. Nationality: Scottish.
Poet. Began his working life as a bookseller’s apprentice, became a lawyer’s clerk,
worked in the Liverpool Customs Office, and then became a journalist. Author of Poems of the Fancy and the Affections (1843). Biographical information: Curran Index; The Modern Scottish Minstrel, edited by Charles Rogers, vol. 5, Adam and Charles Black, 1857, p. 263. (AC)