Samuel Hinds

"Samuel Hinds (1793-1872) was bishop from 1849-1857. Born in Barbados, Hinds was educated at Charterhouse, then Queen's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1815 with a second-class BA. Known to be a missionary with the Society for the Conversion of Negroes, he was ordained in 1822, at first becoming appointed as domestic chaplain to Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin in 1831. After returning to England due to illness in 1834, Hinds became vicar of Yardley, Hertfordshire until 1843, when he …