Inventor: pocket calculator, computers and . . . . the C5.
Born as Clive Marles Sinclair on 30 July 1940 near Richmond-upon-Thames. He was the eldest of the three children of George William Carter Sinclair (1911-1995) and Thora Edith Ella Sinclair née Marles (b.1916). He died, aged 81 years, on 16 September 2021 in London.
Details of his life can be found on our picture source, his Wikipedia page and in his obituary.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Clive Sinclair
Born Germany. Considered the founder of organic chemistry and "father of the fertilizer industry". He also was behind the company that trademarked the Oxo cube and made the invention of Marmite p...
Born Welbeck Street. An unusual childhood: his father changed their name from Beach to create a fictional connection with the medieval Barons De la Beche of Aldworth. Inheriting a slave plantation ...
Born Tarradale, Ross and Cromarty. Had a successful army career and was set to dedicate the rest of his life to fox-hunting, before, with his wife's encouragement, turning to science. Geologist. Wo...
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Born Chicago as James Dewey Watson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wilkins, for their work on the theory of a double-helix structure for DNA.
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman Alfred Edward Minter was born...
Architect. He could be either Thomas Cundy, senior (1765-1825), or his son; as their careers were closely intertwined. The identity of the portrait on the right is similarly doubtful. Cundy senior ...
That ". . . " suggests that the preceding words are a quotation. The best we can come up with is "The future's not ours to see. Que ser...
Their names were recorded in a book of remembrance deposited in , what is now the Apostolic Church, Highgate Road, NW5.
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