Joseph Hinton

Joseph Harold Hinton (1 January 1862 – 4 January 1941) was a British composer and organist.

Hinton was born in Claydon, Buckinghamshire. His teachers included Frederick Bridge of Westminster Abbey.^[1] In 1882 Hinton was appointed resident music-master at Blairlodge School in Polmont, Scotland, moving then in 1885 to be organist at Hyndland Church, Hillhead, Glasgow.^[2] His published compositions include a setting of De Profundis, a song titled Eldorado, and some anthems.^[3] In 1908 he published L'allegro, his op. 5, for string orchestra, with timpani ad lib.^[4][5] He was honorary secretary of the Glasgow Society of Musicians in 1909.^[6]

At least briefly from 1909 he lived at 7 Striven Gardens in Glasgow.^[7] In May 1910 he went to Canada,^[8] and worked in Ontario before heading west, to British Columbia. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1941.^[9]