HINCKS, Rev. Thomas Dix (son of Edward Hincks, d. 1772). b. Bachelor’s quay, Dublin 24 June 1767; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1784–8 and at Hackney New coll. 1788–90; presbyterian minister Cork 1790; kept a school at Cork 1791–1803; lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy, Royal Cork institution 1810–13; tutor Fermoy academy 1815–21; classical head master Belfast Academical Instit. 1821–36 and professor of Hebrew there 1822–49; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Letters occasioned by the circulation of Paine’s Age of Reason 1795, 2 ed. 1796; An introduction to ancient geography 1825, 7 ed. 1855; Rudiments of Greek grammar 1825 and other books. d. Murray’s ter. Belfast 24 Feb. 1857. bur. Killeleagh.
HINCKS, Rev. William (son of the preceding). b. Cork, May 1794; presbyterian minister Cork 1815, at Exeter 1816–22 and at Renshaw st. Liverpool 1822–7; professor of natural philosophy at Manchester coll. York 1827–39; editor of The Enquirer 1842–9; professor of natural history, Queen’s coll. Cork 1849–53 and at University coll. Toronto 1853–71; contributed to Canadian Journal 1854–65. d. Toronto 10 Sep. 1871. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 186–7.
HIND, Rev. John. b. Cumberland 1796; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 1813, scholar 1815, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fellow of Sid. Suss. coll.; moderator 1822, 1823, 1826, examiner 1824, 1827; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; author of The principles of the differential and integral calculus 1827; The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry 5 ed. 1855; The principles and practice of arithmetic 1832, 8 ed. 1856. d. 22 Trumpington st. Cambridge 17 Dec. 1866. Light Blue, ii, 120 (1867).
HINDLEY, Charles. b. Fairfield 1800; classical and mathematical tutor Moravian establishment, Gracehill, Ireland to 1819; a cotton spinner 1819; a founder of the Aston and Dukinfield mechanics’ instit. 1825; president of Peace soc.; contested Ashton-under-Lyne 14 Dec. 1832; contested Warrington 7 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ashton 9 Jany. 1835 to death. d. Dartmouth house, Queen st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1857. Dr. Todd and the late member for Ashton. Fatal effects of the stimulating treatment of disease. By A. B. Granville 1860.
HINDLIP, Henry Allsopp, 1 Baron (3 son of Samuel Allsopp of Burton on Trent, brewer 1780–1838). b. 19 Feb. 1811; head of firm of Allsopp and Sons, brewers, Burton; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1874–80, contested it 1880; cr. a baronet 7 May 1880; cr. baron Hindlip of Hindlip in the co. of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the co. of Derby 15 Feb. 1886. d. Hindlip hall near Worcester 3 April 1887. London Figaro 9 April 1887 p. 4 portrait.
HINDMARCH, William Mathewson (son of Wm. Hindmarch of Sunderland, brewer). b. Fan quay near Sunderland 10 June 1803; articled to Thomas Collin of Sunderland, attorney; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1832, bencher 12 April 1862; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 7 Dec. 1861; recorder of York, Oct. 1865 to death; author of A treatise on the law relating to patent privileges for the sole use of inventions 1846; Observations on the defects of the patent laws, with suggestions for reform 1851. d. Aix la Chapelle 27 Aug. 1866. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxiii, 307 (1867).
HINDMARSH, Sir John. b. 1786; entered navy May 1793; served in Lord Howe’s action and in battle of the Nile when though but a Midshipman he was in temporary command of the Bellerophon; captain 3 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 May 1836; founded the colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836 and was governor to 16 July 1838; lieut. governor of Heligoland 28 Sep. 1840 to 7 March 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 Aug. 1851; R.A. on half pay 31 Jany. 1856. d. Denbigh place, Belgravia, London 29 July 1860. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 91.
HINDS, Right Rev. Samuel (son of Abel Hinds of Barbadoes). b. Barbadoes 1795; ed. at Charterhouse and Queen’s coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1831; missionary to the Negroes of Barbadoes; principal of Codrington college Barbadoes; vice-principal of St. Alban hall Ox. 1827–31; domestic chaplain to archbishop Whately in Dublin 1831–3 and 1843; V. of Ardeley, Herts. 5 Feb. 1835 to March 1843; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral Dublin 1843; V. of united parishes of Castlenock, Clonsilla and Mullahidart 1843–8; dean of Carlisle 27 Sep. 1848; bishop of Norwich 26 Sep. 1849, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec. 1849, resigned 1857; author of The history of the rise and progress of Christianity 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1846; Sonnets and other poems 1834; The three temples of the one true God contrasted 1830, 3 ed. 1857 and 25 other books. d. 40 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 7 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. xv, 376 (1849), portrait, lx, 163, (1872).
HINGSTON, Edward Peron. b. about 1823; attended lectures at King’s coll. Lond.; contributed to periodicals 1841–42; manager for professor Anderson the wizard of the north, acting manager for him at Covent Garden, Dec. 1855 to 5 March 1856 when house burnt; went with Anderson to America and Australia 1856–64; manager for Artemus Ward, American humorist in America and England 1864 to Jany. 1867; managed “the Hall by the sea,” Margate; stage manager at St. James’s theatre 1870; lessee and manager of Opera Comique theatre, Oct. 1872 to Dec. 1873; manager at Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; edited many works by R. H. Newell, Mark Twain and Artemus Ward 1865–76; author of The Siddons of Modern Italy, Adelaide Ristori 1856; The Genial Showman, Being reminiscences of Artemus Ward 1870. d. Crowndale road, Camden town, London 9 June 1876. Era 18 June 1876 p. 10; Illust. Sporting news, vi, 473 (1867), portrait.
HINTON, James (3 child of Rev. John Howard Hinton 1791–1873). b. Reading 1822; ed. at Harpenden; cashier at a woollen draper’s shop in Whitechapel 1838–9; clerk in an insurance office in the city; M.R.C.S. 1848; assist. surgeon at Newport, Essex 1847; in the West Indies 1848–50; partner with Mr. Fisher in Bartholomew Close, London 1850–3; in practice at 18 Savile row, London 1853 to 1874; aural surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1863; the chief aurist in London from date of Toynbee’s death to March 1874 when he retired; author of Man and his dwelling place 1859, 3 ed. 1872; Life in nature 1862; The mystery of pain 1866, 3 ed. 1879; Thoughts on health 1871; The question of aural surgery 1874. d. St. Michael’s, Madeira 16 Dec. 1875. bur. at Ponta Delgada in the island of Sao Miguel. Life and letters of James Hinton, edited by Ellice Hopkins (1878), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 99, 101 (1876), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90, portrait.