Introduction

Biography

John was the son of Ox­ford pas­tor James Hin­ton and Ann Tay­lor, fa­ther of sur­geon James Hint­on and grand­fa­ther of ma­the­ma­ti­cian and sci­ence fict­ion au­thor Charles How­ard Hin­ton.

A gra­du­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ed­in­burgh, John be­gan his min­is­try at Ha­ver­ford­west, Pem­broke­shire, Wales, in 1816.

In 1820, he moved to Read­ing, Berk­shire, and in 1837, to Lon­don, where for ma­ny years he was pas­tor of the Ba­ptist Church in Dev­on­shire Square, Bi­shops­gate.

Hinton re­turned to Read­ing in his lat­er years, but spent his clos­ing days at Bris­tol.

Works

• History of the Unit­ed States, from the Ear­li­est Pe­ri­od, with Will­iam Au­gust Crafts (Lon­don: 1830–32)
• The Means of a Re­li­gious Re­vi­val (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Lin­coln & Ed­mands, 1831)
• The Work of the Ho­ly Spir­it in Con­ver­sion (Lon­don: Will­iam Ball, 1841)
• Memoir of Will­iam Knibb, Mis­sion­ary in Ja­mai­ca, 1847
• The Theo­lo­gic­al Works of Rev. John How­ard Hin­ton, MA, 6 vol­umes
• The His­to­ry and To­po­gra­phy of the Unit­ed States of North Am­eri­ca, from the Ear­li­est Per­iod to the Pre­sent Time, with Sam­uel Lo­ren­zo Knapp (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: S. Walk­er, 1854–56)