Thomas Dix Hincks

Thomas Dix Hincks (1767 Dublin - 1857) , Belfast was an Irish orientalist and naturalist.

Hincks was educated at Trinity College , Dublin. He was ordained a Presbysterian minister and worked at the Old Presbyterian Church on Princes Street in Cork.After teaching in the Cork Institution, which he founded, he taught in Fermoy , County Cork. In 1821 he was appointed Master of the Classical School at the Belfast Academical Institution , in 1822 becoming Professor of Oriental Languages. He gained a Doctorate in Laws from Glasgow University in 1834.He wrote "A Greek-English Lexicon.Containing all the words that occur in the books used in most schools and collegiate courses" London: Whittaker & Co. Dublin and edited the "Munster Agricultural Magazine" in Cork.Hincks was the father of Edward Hincks an orientalist and clergyman and Francis Hincks a Canadian politician.He was a founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

References

*Nash, R. and Ross, H.C.G. "The development of natural history in early 19th century Ireland in From Linnaeus to Darwin: commentaries on the history of biology and geology" Society for the bibliography of Natural History 13:27-
*cite book|last=Foster|first=John Wilson|coauthors=and Helena C. G. Chesney (eds.)|title=Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History|year=1997|publisher=Lilliput Press|location=Dublin|id=ISBN 1-874675-29-5