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Notes for JOSIAH
TAYLOR HINTON:
Sources: Dr Williams Library for England and Wales (British Vital
Records CD), IGI, NSW records, Nigel and Elisabeth Hinton P.O. Box
383 Alexandra New Zealand
One of founders of
Baptist Church in New Zealand.
In Bathurst, NSW,
1866.
The British Weekly,
Dec 23, 1915
The Late Rev.
J.T.Hinton
The Rev Josiah
Taylor Hinton, the oldest Baptist minister in New Zealand, passed
peacefully away at Dunedin on November 5. Mr Hinton was the youngest
son of the eminent Rev. John Howard Hinton, famous as a preacher in
London in the early part of last century, and brother of James
Hinton, well known in his day as an aurist and a philosopher. Mr
J.T.Hinton went to Australia in the early days of the gold-fields,
and after his conversion became a Baptist minister and served
churches in New South Wales and Queensland. He removed to New
Zealand some forty years ago, and held pastorates at Thames,
Wellington, Invercargill, and Caversham. He was a capable preacher,
buoyant, optimistic and vivacious. Mr Hinton has left four sons, one
of whom, the Rev. W.H. Hinton, is pastor of the Baptist Church at
Brooklyn, Wellington.
Baptist Rev Josiah
Taylor Hinton arrived to Brisbane from Sydney 24th May 1859 on board
the "Yarra Yarra." He was educated as compositor later as a minister
of religion. Was Maryborough's first minister of religion and
According to Buzacott also author of essentially all leaders printed
in the Maryborough Chronicle from February 1861 to about March 1863.
Born 29 JUL 1833
Kings Road Meeting-Baptist, Reading, Berkshire, England son of Rev
John Howard Hinton a renowned Baptist minister and Anti Slavery
agitator in London and his wife Eliza Birt, mar. Birmingham Warwick
5/6 1818. He died in Feb or Mar 1916. A brother to Rev J.H. Hinton,
Isaac Taylor Hinton, went to the USA where he too was embroiled in
the anti slavery movement at great personal cost, this brother died
in New Orleans in 1844.
He moved to Ipswich
from Bathurst St Baptist Church, May 1859, was trained by Rev.
Benjamin Gilmore Wilson and ordained by him at Maryborough in Oct
186.
He served at
Maryborough from April 1860 - Mar 1863, in which period he was also
the principal leader writer for the Maryborough Chronicle, not the
least in regards to indigenous issues.
He then returned to
England and was married in the Independent Chapel, Middleton Road,
Dalston, near Islington on 15th July 1863. He returned to Queensland
with his wife (Roberta) Annie, nee Swayne on board the Fiery Star 20
Nov 1864.
He then went on and
became the founding pastor for the Baptist church at Rockhampton
where he served from Sept 1864 - July 1865. He then returned to a
Ministry in NSW: he was in Bathurst 1866-69; Founded and served for
the Orange Church from 1869 until called to serve as minister in NZ
from about Sept 1875. He remained in New Zealand and died in Dunedin
5th Nov 1915. He served as the President of the Baptist Union of NSW
in 1874.
The only child born
in Queensland was Robert Swayne Hinton, born 27/3 1865 at the family
residence at Stanley, Rockhampton.
Sources:
Maryborough Chronicle 1860-63. Baptist Archives in Brisbane and
Sydney. DM March 2, 1907, Buzacott, alias "Verney": Sixty years..
Stated that Hinton "volunteered to write a leading article in each
week's issue" from the inauguration of MC 21st Nov 1860. However he
suffered two month severe illness, in which time the "facile pen" of
the publican John Purser fulfilled his obligations. Hinton recovered
and returned in early February, "nobly fulfilling his undertaking to
write a weekly leader until about two years afterwards he left on a
visit to England." Wife of a descendant Elisabeth Hinton in New
Zealand. Queensland Baptist Centre, Gaythorne Qld. Cryle, Dennis:
The Press in Colonial Queensland (1989) p 55-67 & Australian
Dictionary of Biography 1851-1890.
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JOSIAH TAYLOR HINTON:
Christening: 29 Jul
1833, Kings Road Meeting Hall - Baptist, Reading, Berkshire, England
Occupation:
Minister of religion Religion: Baptist minister.