Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition
Hugh had plans drawn up for a substantial institute to be built at Lady Place with laboratory facilities for fifty workers, together with lecture theatre, museum, offices, and library, to house his collection of some 300,000 reprints and books, including those of Sir Robert McCarrison, Surgeon-Captain Thomas L. Cleave, Neil Painter, Hugh Trowell, and Cicely Williams. Much of his time was occupied in trying to raise funds, but to a very large extent the functioning of the institute in the temporary accommodation arranged at Lady Place was dependent on personal donations from Hugh. Eventually, he left all his estate to the Foundation. The Council of Management decided not to pursue itself the build-up of research at Lady Place, but to see whether a university would wish to further Hugh’s aspirations by founding a chair in Human Nutrition. Accordingly, proposals were invited and a panel of international experts in nutrition was appointed to assess the relative merits of the proposals submitted. In the final round, there were three contenders, Oxford Brookes University, The University of Oxford, and The University of Reading. The last proved successful and, in due course, the Foundation was wound up and the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition was established at the University of Reading. In 1995, Dr Christine Williams was appointed as the first Hugh Sinclair Professor and the appointment of other staff followed swiftly.
Thus Hugh Sinclair’s devotion and dedication to human nutrition has borne fruit and the research and teaching that is carried out in the Unit bearing his name is making substantial progress, its contribution increasing year by year.
The above account of Hugh Sinclair’s life and achievements has been largely based on the publications of Ewin (2001) and Gale and Lloyd (1990).
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