Frederick Sinnett

Frederick Sinnett (8 March 1830 – 23 November 1866) was a literary critic and journalist in colonial Australia.

Sinnett was born in Hamburg, Germany, He went to South Australia in 1849 as engineer to the Adelaide and Port Railway Company; but the scheme was never carried out.

He then went into partnership with Thomas Burr, a former Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia, eventually (in 1857 in Melbourne) marrying Burr's eldest daughter, Jane. During this period he contributed regularly to the Mining Journal, edited by George Stevenson, at that time considered the best-conducted paper in South Australia. and was Parliamentary reporter for Hansard. He returned to Melbourne in 1865, where he resumed his connection with the Argus and was retained on the literary staff of that paper as contributor and leader-writer until within a short time of his death on 23 November 1866 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.