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1871. His father, Dr. Thomas D. Hincks, was pro- fessor of oriental languages in the Royal Belfast institution. William was the first professor of natural history in Queen's college, Cork, and from 1853 till his death held the same professorship in the University of Toronto. — His brother, Sir Francis, Canadian statesman, b. in Cork, Ireland, 14 Dec, 1807; d. in Montreal, Canada, 18 Aug., 1885, was educated at Fermoy and at the Royal Belfast institution, and after serving an appren- ticeship of seven years to a Belfast firm of shippers, became jun- ior partner in a Liv- erpool firm, and in 1830 sailed as super- cargo to the West In- dies. He returned to Belfast in 1831, and in the year following set- tled in Canada and opened a warehouse in York (now Toronto). He soon afterward be- came secretary of a mutual insurance com- pany, and cashier in a bank, and was also an accountant of the com- mission that was ap- pointed to investigate

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preferred by William Lyon Mackenzie in connection with the Welland canal. He founded the Toronto " Examiner," a reform journal, in 1839. edited it for several years, and in 1844 established the Montreal " Pilot," also a Liberal newspaper, and was its prin- cipal political writer for many years. In March, 1841, he was elected for Oxford to the Canada assem- bly, and represented it until the general election of 1844, when he was defeated. He was returned for the same constituency in 1851, and on his election for South Oxford and Renfrew, in 1854, decided to represent the latter county, and served until 1855. In October, 1809, he was elected for North Renfrew in the commons, and at the close of parliament was returned for Vancouver, which he represented until his retirement from political life in 1874. He was a member of the executive council and in- spector-general of Canada from June, 1842, to November, 1843, when he retired from the govern- ment, with Messrs. Lafontaine and Baldwin, his political chiefs. He again held the same office in the Lafontaine - Baldwin cabinet from March, 1848, till October, 1851, and from the latter date till September, 1854, in the Hincks-Morin admin- istration, of which he was premier. He visited Washington on several occasions to confer with the British minister on the subject of commercial intercourse between Canada and the United States. The Earl of Elgin, governor-general of Canada, selected Mr. Hincks to accompany him as a repre- sentative of Canada when he negotiated the reci- procity treaty in 1854. He was a delegate to the maritime provinces in 1852. in relation to the intercolonial railway, and the same year was a delegate to Great Britain to urge the repeal of the clergy reserve act, and to secure from the imperial government a guarantee for the construction of the intercolonial railway. During his visit he made arrangements that resulted in the construction of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada. In 1855 he was appointed governor of Barbadoes and the Windward islands, which office he held till 1862, being the first colonial statesman to receive a colo- nial governorship. Gov. Hincks provoked angr* controversy by his maintaining that free labor was cheaper than slave labor, and that the value of Barbadian property had been increased by the abolition of slavery. In 1862 he became governor of British Guiana, and so continued till 186!). He was created a companion of the order of the Bath in 1862 and a knight-commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George in 1869. Sir Ennuis was pensioned by the imperial government, and, upon returning to Canada in 1869, entered Sir John A. Macdonald's cabinet as minister of finance, which office he resigned in 1873. In 1874 he be- came president of the City bank of Montreal, whieh, under its changed name of the Consolidated bank, failed and involved him in serious pecuniary loss and a legal prosecution, which, however, resulted in his complete vindication. In 1878 he repre- sented the Dominion on the joint commission, composed of Chief-Justice Harrison, Sir Edward Thornton, and himself, which determined the northwestern boundary of Ontario. For some years before his death he was editor-in-chief of the " Journal of Commerce " in Montreal. In ad- dition to various pamphlets, Sir Francis wrote " Reminiscences of My Public Life " (1884).

HIND, Henry Youle, Canadian geologist, b. in Nottingham, England, in June, 1823. He was educated at Leipsic and at Cambridge, came to this country in 1846, and after travelling through Mexico and the southern states went to Canada in 1847. He was appointed mathematical master and lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy at the provincial normal school for Upper Canada and in 1851 became professor of chemistry and geology in Trinity college, Toronto. In 1857 he received the appointment of geologist to the River exploring expedition, and in 1858 the charg of the exploration of the country between the Red river and the Saskatchewan was entrusted to hit by the Canadian government. The publication his reports on these expeditions was ordered by ft Canadian legislature and also by the British par- liament. In 1861 he had charge of an expedition for the exploration of Labrador, in 1864 he wa appointed director of the geological survey of New Brunswick, and he afterward became professor of chemistry and natural history in King's college, Nova Scotia. He edited the " Canadian Journal " in 1852-5, and in 1862 the " Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada." In 1860 he was elected a fellow of the Royal geo- graphical society. In addition to numerous essi and articles he is the author of " Northwest Terri- tory; Reports of Progress, with a Report on t lie Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Ex- pedition" (Toronto, 1859); "Explorations in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula" (Londor 1863) ; and " Preliminary Report on the Geolog of New Brunswick " (Fredericton, 1865).

HINDMAN, Thomas Carmichael, soldier b. in Tennessee in November, 1818 ; d. in Helena, Ark., 28 Sept., 1868. After receiving a common-school education, he studied law, and removed to Mississippi, where he practised his profession. He served throughout the Mexican war as lieutenant in a Mississippi regiment, and in 1858 was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving till 1861. Up had been re-elected as a Secessionist, but entered the Confederate army with the appointment of brigadier - general. He first served under Gen. Simon Buckner in Kentucky, was in command at Memphis, lost the battle of Newtonia, and having collected his forces at Van Buren, Ark., crosses Arkansas river with 2,500 men and was defeated