William Hincks was an Irish Unitarian minister, theologian and professor of natural history.
16 Facts About William Hincks
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William Hincks was the first professor of natural history at University College, Toronto and president of the Canadian Institute.
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William Hincks was the first editor of the Unitarian magazine The Inquirer.
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William Hincks was educated in Belfast and trained as a minister in Manchester College, York from 1810 to 1815.
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William Hincks served in Cork from 1815 to 1818, then moved to Exeter where he ministered from 1818 to 1822.
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William Hincks stayed there until 1834 and in 1839 took a break from teaching to resume his work with the church, serving in 1845 as the minister at what later became Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel in Hampstead.
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William Hincks was involved in developing the museum and herbaria.
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William Hincks was said to be well like by his students there, although his ideas and teaching style was often seen as outdated.
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William Hincks was strongly opposed to Darwinism, preferring the Quinarian taxonomic system.
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William Hincks was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society, a society for the study of taxonomy and natural history, in 1826.
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William Hincks had spent most of time working with the herbarium collections rather than the gardens.
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William Hincks was the first editor of the Unitarian magazine The Inquirer from 1842 to 1847 during his time in London.
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In 1817 William Hincks married Maria Ann Yandell and together they had 8 children, five boys and three girls.
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One of their sons Thomas William Hincks followed in his fathers footsteps and became a minister and naturalist.
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Yandell died in 1849 and William Hincks remarried Sarah Maria sometime before leaving England, her maiden name is not known.
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William Hincks died in Toronto on 10 September 1871 at the age of 77.