Alfred Percy SINNETT [1840-1921]

Alfred Percy Sinnett edited the Hong Kong Daily Press between 1865 and 1868. He returned to England to work for The Standard, and in 1872 he became editor of the influential Indian paper The  Pioneer (Rudyard Kipling was one of his staff).

He became interested in Asian religions and was involved with the Theosophical Society's attempt to draw on Hinduism and Buddhism to create a religion that would replace Christianity and eventually be validated by science. He wrote a number of books, the best known of which is Esoteric Buddhism (1883).