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James Hinton (baptised 26 November 1822 – 16 December 1875) was an English surgeon and author. He was the father of mathematician Charles Howard Hinton. He was an outspoken advocate of polygamy. He appears as a character in some fictional accounts of the 19th century English serial murderer known as Jack the Ripper.
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James Hinton(baptized 26 November 1822 – died 16 December 1875) was an English surgeon and author. He was the father of mathematician Charles Howard Hinton.
He was born at Reading, Berkshire, the son of John Howard Hinton, Baptist minister and author of the History and Topography of the United Statesand other works. James was educated at his grandfather's school near Oxford, and at the Nonconformist school at Harpenden, and in 1838, on his father's removal to London, was apprenticed to a woollen-draper...
His career as an author started in 1856 with papers on physiological and ethical subjects to the Christian Spectator; and in 1859 he published Man and his Dwellingplace. A series of papers entitled "Physiological Riddles," in the Cornhill Magazine, afterwards published as Life in Nature (1862), as well as another series entitled Thoughts on Health ...
Because of his association with Sir William Withey Gull, Hinton has been indirectly associated with the murders of Jack the Ripper. In their fictional graphic novel on the Ripper, From Hell, authors Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell extend Hinton's concern over social problems to prostitution in Whitechapel, which became the hunting grounds for the Rip...
George Boole's work eventually became one of the foundations of modern computer science. Another great-great-grandfather of his was the surgeon and author James Hinton, [86] who was the father of the mathematician Charles Howard Hinton. Hinton's father was the entomologist Howard Hinton.
James Hilton (9 de setembro de 1900 - 20 de dezembro de 1954) foi um escritor inglês de romances e roteiros para o cinema. Sua obra de maior destaque é o romance de 1933 Lost Horizon (Horizonte Perdido), em que idealiza o mito de Shangri-La.
James Hinton's The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 offers a fascinating insight into this tumultuous period, looked at through the lens of that arguably most idiosyncratic of organizations of the period, Mass-Observation.
- Robert Terence James
- 2016
27 de out. de 2016 · This classic work delves into the life of James Hinton, an influential philosopher and thinker of the 19th century, providing a detailed look at his personal letters, philosophical musings, and the intellectual journey that defined his legacy.
- James Hinton
James Hinton may refer to: James Hinton (musician) (born 1988), American musician known as The Range; James Hinton (surgeon) (1822–1875), English surgeon and author; James E. Hinton (c. 1937–2006), American cinematographer; James Myles Hinton (1891–1970), African American businessperson, civil rights leader
