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Elizabeth Sinclair
Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (26 April 180016 October 1892) 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 Niihau in 1864. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she married Francis Sinclair, a ship's captain. With six children in tow, the family moved to New Zealand. Her husband and eldest son (and much of the family's property) were later lost at sea.
After years of farming, mainly at Pigeon Bay on the Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of the South Island, she decided to relocate to Canada. Unhappy with the conditions she found on Vancouver Island, she considered California but instead went to Hawaii where she bought the Hawaiian island of Niihau for $10,000. She later bought additional lands at Hanapepe and Makaweli on the island of Kauai.〔Novitz 2010〕 Her descendants, the Robinson family, continue to own and maintain the island of Ni'ihau.〔Dunford 2003〕
== Early life ==
Elizabeth Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26 April 1800. Known as "Eliza",〔 she was one of six children born to William (or James〔) a successful merchant, and Jean Robertson McHutcheson (sometimes spelled "McHutchison").〔Peterson 1984, 335-340〕 Eliza married Captain Francis W. Sinclair (1797–1846) of the Royal Navy on 13 January 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.〔Daws, 1962〕〔Stepien, 1988, 35.〕〔Harrington, ''Hawaiian Encyclopedia''〕
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