Abstract

Hugh Sinclair was a brilliant and eccentric nutritional scientist who is being recognised more and more as a quite exceptional person. how can one get across the flavour of such a man in just a few minutes? I think the only way is to give you a few vignettes from Hugh Sinclair's life. I was fortunate to know him well. He appointed me in 1963 as a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford where he was the tutor, and, together with Brian Lloyd, we taught medical students for the next few years. I was privileged to meet with him almost every day, and these occasions set the basis for a lifelong friendship that ended, sadly, only when I became one of his executors. I was very sad, but felt very privileged to be involved in the disposal of the effects he left behind. Here, then, are the vignettes.