Comments on: Farewell to a Legend – Kevin Sinclair

By: John James O'Brien

John James O'Brien — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:47:31 +0000

Nice to find this tribute to Kevin. Idid not know him long or well, but found an honesty and frankness that felt, as a new comer in a hostile environment in 2002, like a strong connection nonetheless. I always enjoyed running into Kevin and sharing wry insights and somehow never found the time to build on that. He is missed.

By: Prudence Lui

Prudence Lui — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:25:06 +0000

Dear Adam,
Greetings from hongkong..
We exchange email years ago when Kev (my boss and gave me the first job years ago) asked me to dig up some comment from you for his scmp column. I don’t realise your blog and the piece of kev remind me the fascinating time with him. It’s almost 15 months since his passing and we missed him much.
His memoir – Tell me your Story published by SCMP is back to the book store and we eventually secured the distribution right from SCMPost. so if you know someone who didn’t have a chance to buy a copy, pls refer us to them.
By the way, we set up a facebook for kevin as well. you are welcome to drop your thoughts.
cheers
pru

By: Judy McGrath

Judy McGrath — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:34:33 +0000

Is this the same Kevin Sinclair that worked on the Dominion Newspaper in Wellington New Zealand back in the early 1960′s and shared a flat with my late husband Terry McGrath? They went on notorious Pub crawls up Willis Street and often turned up at my place of work at lunch time in their slippers looking very inebriated.
It was because of Kevin that I met my husband Terry. Kevin had asked my flat-mate for a date and she was too wary to go unless I came along too and that was how I met Terry. Kevin and Terry were both recruited to go over to Melbourne to work for the Melbourne Sun. I remember Terry coming home one night laughing like mad because Kevin had set fire to the paper table cloth at a boring R.S.L. Club Meeting. We lost track of Kevin as we went went off to Canada and he to Hong Kong although I believe he and Terry cought up in Auckland here at some stage. Terry died of Cancer in 1993. Please give Kit and family my deepest sympathies. Best regards Judy McGrath.

By: charles muirhead

charles muirhead — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:28 +0000

Met Kevin often and fondly with my young son, to whom he was always most gentle and kind, in Sai Kung-even gave him a tip for a story once!. A sad loss, but his presence made the world a better, kinder place.

By: Chris Davis

Chris Davis — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:33:56 +0000

Dear Adam,
The SCMP is planning to run a Kevin Sinclair tribute feature tomorrow (28 December). Quentin Chan has asked me to contact some of Kevin’s long-time and dearest friends to see if they would write a couple of hundred words about their friendship with him or a memorable event that involved Kevin. I was wondering if you would allow me to attribute a couple of comments from your website?
I am proud to call Kevin a dear friend and a great chum, although I only knew Kevin for the last 20 years. We even set up a pub together, which made money, quite an oddity for a Sinclair investment. But man oh man, what a spirit our great chum had. On Friday when I was wheeling him through his kitchen to the back door of he stopped me and asked that David (his son) and I help him walk the couple of steps outside. After all, a man deserves the right to walk out of his own house on his own terms. As Kit, David and Kiri were about to drive away he squeezed my arm and murmured that I am a good mate. When they were gone I left a bucketful of tears on their driveway.
Kit, Kiri and David spent Christmas Day with me and my family. On Jan 5th a group of Kev’s friends are going to the seafood restaurant on Tap Mun Island, one of Kev’s favourite places in Hong Kong and the scene of many long, long Saturday afternoon lunches.

Regards,
Chris