Matthew Sinclare

Matthew Sinclaire was one of the original twenty-one Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh when it was incorporated by royal charter on 29 November 1681. His name was written tenth on the charter. Sinclaire received his medical degree from the University of Leiden in 1674. He was not recorded as present at the College until the first election day on 30 November 1682 and therefore did not hold one of the first offices. On 2 June 1684 he delivered a discourse before the College entitled 'De Dissenteria'. From 1694 he was chosen alongside Dundas as one of the physicians for the poor for the ensuing year. Sinclaire was also a member of the committee for the revision of the 'Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia' from 9 March 1697. He was the last survivor of the original twenty-one Fellows and died in 1728.