Samuel Hinds (bishop)
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Samuel Hinds, DD
Doctor of Divinity
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 (23 December 1793 – 7 February 1872), was a British
United Kingdom
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 clergyman. He was appointed Bishop of Norwich
Bishop of Norwich
The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers most of the County of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The see is in the City of Norwich where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided...

 in 1849 and resigned in 1857. Hinds was of the Anglo-Catholic persuasion. He had strong links with the colonisation of New Zealand
New Zealand
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 and the town of Hinds, New Zealand
Hinds, New Zealand
Hinds is a small town in the Mid-Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located on the Canterbury Plains on the south bank of the Hinds River, which reaches the Pacific Ocean between the nearby localities of Longbeach and Lowcliffe...

 is named after him.

Life

Hinds was born in Barbados
Barbados
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. His father, Abel Hinds, was a member of a family who were amongst the earlier settlers and chief land proprietors of that island. they had made their money from the sugar plantations there. He was educated at Charterhouse
Charterhouse School
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 and The Queen's College
The Queen's College, Oxford
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, Oxford
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 and obtained the Chancellor's prize for the Latin essay in 1818. He was appointed Dean of Carlisle in 1848 before being appointed Bishop of Norwich in 1849. He resigned his Bishopric in 1857. He died in Notting Hill
Notting Hill
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, London
London
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 in 1872. His estate was valued at c.£60,000 for probate.

Hinds served as assistant curate to the Revd. Henry Handley Norris
Henry Handley Norris
Henry Handley Norris was an English clergyman and theologian. He was the clerical leader of the High Church grouping later known as the Hackney Phalanx, that grew up around him and his friend Joshua Watson.-Life:...

 at St John, Hackney
Church of St John-at-Hackney
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 before becoming principal of Codrington College Grammar School in Barbados (1822-1823). From 1827-1831 he was Vice Principal of St Alban Hall, Oxford and in 1831 became Principal of Codrington College
Codrington College
Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John, Barbados. It was founded by Christopher Codrington, who after his death in 1710 left portions of his 'estates' - two slave labour plantations on Barbados and areas of Barbuda - to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in...

, Barbados. From 1831-1833 he was Chaplain to Richard Whately
Richard Whately
Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.-Life and times:...

, Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop of Dublin
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 before being appointed Vicar of Yardley
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, Hertfordshire in 1835. In 1843 he was appointed Prebendary of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
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, and incumbent of the united parishes of Castleknock
Castleknock
Castleknock is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the west of the modern administrative county of Fingal within the traditional county of Dublin. It is located west of the centre of Dublin....

, Clonsilla
Clonsilla
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, and Mulhuddart
Mulhuddart
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. From 1845 he was once again chaplain to Whately, and also to the Earl of Bessborough
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
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, and the Earl of Clarendon
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 when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

Hinds married a daughter of Abel Clinkett, the editor-proprietor of The Barbadian, (she died in 1834). He subsequently married Emily (b.c.1833) in c. 1856.
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