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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002593b.htm person Sinclair James AACR2 1809 29 April 1881 Place of Birth Altyre, Scotland Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Landscape gardener James Sinclair designed gardens for Russian royalty, largely in the 1840s. He emigrated to Australia in 1854 and was appointed planner of Fitz Roy Gardens in 1857.

Trained in painting and landscape gardening, James Sinclair worked in Kew Gardens, London, planned the estate of Prince Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov of Russia at Sebastopol (1838) and helped lay out the Imperial Gardens at St Petersburg for Tsar Nicholas I. He returned to England in 1853 at the outbreak of the Crimean war then moved to Melbourne the following year. He started up a seed business which he ran from 1854 to 1857, then worked on the plans for Fitz Roy Gardens (1857). Sinclair is commemorated by a memorial tablet set into a pathway near the house on the eastern edge of the gardens in which he had lived from about 1872. He received the Imperial Order of St Anne.

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 'Sinclair, James', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sinclair, James Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Sinclair, James (1809-1881), landscape gardener Gittins, Jean Sinclair, James (1809-1881), landscape gardener Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1976 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z Bede Nairn 128-129 Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes