Elizabeth Sinclair

Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair was a Scottish homemaker, farmer and plantation owner in New Zealand and Hawaii, best known as the matriarch of the Sinclair family that bought the Hawaiian island of Ni ihau in 1864. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she married Francis Sinclair, a ships captain. With six children in tow, the family moved to New Zealand. Her husband and eldest son were later lost at sea.

Elizabeth Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland, onApril 1800. Known as Eliza, she was one of six children born to William a successful merchant, and Jean Robertson McHutcheson . Eliza married Captain Francis W. Sinclair of the Royal Navy onJanuary 1824. They had three sons and three daughters. Sinclair was considered a master navigator, best known for saving the life of the Duke of Wellington in rough seas while escorting him on his return from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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