Thomas Sinclair

Thomas Sinclair, the man pre-eminently responsible for the success of the Ulster Convention of June 1892 and the wordsmith who framed the Ulster Covenant of September 1912, is a largely forgotten figure in modern Ulster.
He was born in Belfast on 23 September 1838. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Queen’s College, Belfast. One of his teachers, James McCosh, the Scottish-born Professor of Logic and Metaphysics and future President of Princeton, had a profound influence on Sinclair. Sinclair graduated with a first class honours degree in mathematics and a gold medal in 1856 and subsequently was awarded a Master’s degree and another gold medal in 1859. Many regarded him as the best student Queen’s had ever seen, prompting the college authorities to confer the honorary degree of D.Lit. on him in 1882.

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