Donald Sinclair

Donald Sinclair may refer to:

  • Donald Sinclair (hotel owner), owner of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and the inspiration for the character Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers
  • Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon), inspiration for the character Siegfried Farnon in James Herriot's novels and their film and TV adaptations All Creatures Great and Small
  • Donald Sinclair (Ontario politician), who represented Bruce North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1883
  • Donald Sinclair (diplomat), former Canadian ambassador to Israel

Famous quotes containing the word sinclair:

    Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)