Samuel Hinds (23 December 1793 – 7 February 1872), was a British clergyman. He was appointed

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in 1849 and resigned in 1857. Hinds was of the

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in his views. He had strong links with the Ngati Kuri (Wai262) and Te Patu tribes of New Zealand, noting a paramount Maori chief Rata Ngaromotu of Ngati Kahu and the colonisation of New Zealand and the town of

Hinds, New Zealand Hinds is a small town in the Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand, 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 ...

is named after him.

Life

Hinds was born in

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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

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and

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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.Robert P. Dod (1860) ''The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland for 1860'' He died in

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, London in 1872. His estate was valued at c.£60,000 for probate. Hinds served as assistant curate to the Revd. Henry Handley Norris at St John, Hackney before becoming principal of Codrington College Grammar School in Barbados (1822–23). From 1827–31 he was Vice Principal of

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and in 1831 became Principal of

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, Barbados. From 1831–33 he was Chaplain to

Richard Whately Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland), Church of Ireland Archbishop of ...

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before being appointed Vicar of Yardley, Hertfordshire in 1835. In 1843 he was appointed Prebendary of

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, and incumbent of the united parishes of

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Clonsilla Clonsilla () is a northwestern suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Clonsilla (civil parish), Clonsilla is also a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Castleknock (barony), Castleknock ...

, and

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. From 1845 he was once again chaplain to Whately, and also to the

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, and the

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when

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. Hinds was a member of the

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from 27 March 1848. He joined the management committee on 25 October 1849. Hinds was considered an expert in colonisation, and Jerningham Wakefield was at one point sent to Dublin by his father to discuss colonisation. The

Hinds River The Hinds River (Māori: Hekeao) is a river in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. Its north and south branches drain the eastern flank of the Moorhouse Range, part of the Southern Alps, and their confluence is near Anama and Mayfield. T ...

in New Zealand is named after him, and the township and district was in turn named after the river. Hinds married a daughter of Abel Clinkett, the editor-proprietor of ''The Barbadian'', (she died in 1834). He subsequently married Emily (born ca 1833) in circa 1856.

References

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