Thomas Sinclair (politician, 1857–1940)

{{Short description|British politician (1857–1940)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Thomas Sinclair

|honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PCi|MP}}

|image =

|order =

|office = Member of Parliament
for Queen's University of Belfast

|term_start = 6 December 1923

|term_end = 18 September 1940

|predecessor = William Whitla

|successor = Douglas Savory

|birth_date = {{Birth date |1857|12|17|df=y}}

|birth_place = Belfast, Ireland

|death_date = {{death date and age|1940|11|25|1857|12|17|df=yes}}

|death_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland

|party = Ulster Unionist Party

|majority =

|alma_mater = Queen's College Belfast
Royal University of Ireland

|nationality = British

|spouse = Never married

|children =

|profession = Surgeon

}}

Thomas Sinclair, {{postnominals|country=GBR|PCi}} (17 December 1857 – 25 November 1940) was an Irish unionist politician.

Sinclair studied at Queen's University, Belfast before working as a surgeon.John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.205 He was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland on its creation in 1921.[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/hnisen.htm The Northern Ireland Senate, 1921-72], Northern Ireland Elections

He was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Queen's University of Belfast at the 1923 United Kingdom general election.{{rayment-hc|date=March 2012}} From 1935 to 1937, Sinclair served as Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Northern Ireland. He resigned his Westminster seat on 18 September 1940 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. but held his Senate seat until his death in November.

The businessman and politician Thomas Sinclair was a relative of Sinclair.{{cite journal |last1=Clarke |first1=RSJ |title=A Corridor to the Past |journal=The Ulster Medical Review |date=April 1994 |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=85–86|pmid=8658997 |pmc=2449096 }}