Background
Francis Hingston was born at Truro on 31 March 1833, the son of Francis Hingston (1796–1841), controller of customs there, and Jane Matilda, daughter of Captain William Kirkness.
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Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1855 with an honorary fourth class degree in the final pass school, and proceeded Master of Arts
Career
From Truro Grammar School, Hingston went on in 1851 to Exeter College, Oxford, as Elliott exhibitioner. in 1859. Ordained in 1856, he served as curate of Holywell, Oxfordshire, until 1858, when he moved to Hampton Gay, in the same county, succeeding to the incumbency of the parish next year. In 1860 he became rector of Ringmore, near Kingsbridge in Devon, where the patronage to the living later became vested in his family.
He remained at Ringmore for the rest of his life.
Foreign ten years (1879-1890) Hingeston-Randolph was rural dean of Woodleigh. He died at Ringmore on 27 August 1910, and was buried in the churchyard there.
In the late 1850s, Hingeston courted the eldest daughter of Joseph Stevenson, the principal instigator of the Rolls Series. This probably eased his appointment as one of the first editors of the series.
However, by May 1858 he had thrown her over, Stevenson describing his conduct as "base, treacherous and untruthful".
At his father-in-law"s wish, he then added the name of Randolph to his own and adopted Hingeston, an earlier form of the spelling of his family surname.
