Northern Ireland civil servant Sinclair Duncan, who recalled working during the Troubles in the 1970s, dies at the age of 96

A civil servant whose memoirs were published in the News Letter last year has died.

Sinclair Duncan, who from 1949 to 1985 worked at in the ministries of Education, Finance and Agriculture, the Cabinet Office, Office of the Executive, NIO and the Department of Environment, lived in Holywood.

He was awarded ISO in 1984.

Mr Duncan was aged 96 when he died in hospital on Wednesday.

The web version of this article links (below) to his memoirs of the 1970s, which were published in seven instalments in November of 2020.

Sinclair Duncan memoirs: Click here, then scroll down for all the other memoir links — please note that there is an erroneous byline on the memoirs and they were all written by Mr Duncan

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