Rev. James Hinton
Born: 1761, Buckingham, England
Died: 1823, Reading, England
A Baptist pastor - a "non-conformist" or "Dissenter" from Anglican church orthodoxy of the day. The display below is from The New Road Baptist Church in Oxford, England (see http://www.newroadbaptistchurchoxford.co.uk)
Another inscription in the historical display at the chapel:
Dr Tatham, Rector of Lincoln College, preached a sermon attacking Nonconformists, repeating this several times in college chapels and city churches. Hinton’s reply, ‘A vindication of the Dissenters in Oxford’ ran into several editions. The extract (above) from Jackson’s Oxford Journal suggests that relations later improved.
married in 1813: Ann Taylor
Born: 1766, London, England
Died: 1832
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Children of James Hinton and Ann Taylor: |
| John Howard Hinton (1791-1873) |
| Isaac Taylor Hinton (1799-1847) |
For more on the Taylors of Ongar, a well known family of writers, see: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~taylorsofongar/
More on Jane Taylor can be seen at the Lavenham Guildhall Museum, Suffolk, UK.
From a booklet published by the museum:
Ann and Jane Taylor were daughters of an engraver who, in troubled times for dissenters such as themselves at the end of the eighteenth century, moved out from London to Lavenham (before moving on to Colchester and, eventually, Ongar). Somewhat ironically for writers whose verses instructed children to be obedient, the success of Ann’s and Jane’s joint publications caused their parents, who had discouraged them from writing professionally and trained them to be engravers, to follow them into print with a number of instructional and educational works. Ann got married (in 1813) to a minister and lived to a ripe old age. Jane never got married and kept writing (especially for young adults) until an untimely death from cancer in 1824. The Taylor Room is a memorial to a nineteenth century non-conformist family who made an appreciable contribution to the domestic and religious life of England and the United States. Their sense of duty and piety (notwithstanding that it was frequently mixed with gaiety and fun) is no longer in fashion and perhaps few visitors bother to linger long enough to come across the framed and hand-written poem hanging behind the door into the room.
[a reference to a poem by Jane on display at the museum.]
Prepared by Julian Hinton, 2008 jhint @ mail . com