Howard Everest Hinton, 24 August 1912 - 2 August 1977
Professor H. E. Hinton, a distinguished entomologist, Head of the Department of Zoology in the University of Bristol, died on 2 August 1977, aged 64 years. He was born in Mexico of British parents, and went to schools in Mexico and California. His undergraduate work was done at Berkeley and his postgraduate work at Cambridge, where he took the Ph.D. in 1939 and the Sc.D. in 1957. He was an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum (Natural History) 1939-49, then successively Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at the University of Bristol. He published many papers and several books on insects and other animals, principally in the fields of taxonomy, functional morphology, and natural history. Set out in such bare outline, Hinton’s career seems nothing out of the ordinary for these pages. Viewed in more detail, his life was one of exceptional interest, for he was a versatile biologist who visited many parts of the world and worked in several; a tireless investigator with discoveries of wide biological interest to his credit; an independent and unorthodox thinker, given to controversy; an enthusiastic, stimulating, and amusing talker; an outstanding personality in entomological circles in Britain and abroad.