Artist and teacher, born in London and educated in Norfolk, who gained a scholarship to the Cambridge School of Art. During the 1960s and 1970s Hinton exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition, Paris Salon, in national exhibitions, winning an award from Hesketh Hubbard Art Society, and had solo shows. He also worked as a graphic artist and cartoonist for the Eastern Daily Press and “taught as a last resort”. Travelled extensively in Europe and the Near East, in such venues as jazz clubs and hotels committing to memory the people he saw. They were depicted wittily in a solo exhibition at The Catto Gallery in 2000.