Samuel Hinds (bishop)

The Right Reverend

Samuel Hinds
The Right Reverend; Samuel Hinds;
Bishop of Norwich
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
In office	1849–1857
Predecessor	Edward Stanley
Successor	John Pelham
Other post(s)	Dean of Carlisle (1848)
Personal details
Born	23 December 1793; Barbados
Died	7 February 1872 (aged 78); Notting Hill, London
Denomination	Anglican
Education	Charterhouse School
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford

Samuel Hinds (23 December 1793 – 7 February 1872), was a British clergyman. He was appointed Bishop of Norwich in 1849 and resigned in 1857. Hinds was of the Broad Church in his views.^[1] He had strong links with the Ngati Kuri (Wai262) and Te Patu tribes of New Zealand, noting a paramount Maori chief Rata Ngaromotu of Ngati Kahu and the colonisation of New Zealand and the town of Hinds, New Zealand is named after him.

^ B. H. Blacker, ‘Hinds, Samuel (1793–1872)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[1] B. H. Blacker, ‘Hinds, Samuel (1793–1872)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

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