Sidney Langford HINDE

Background

HINDE, Sidney Langford was born on July 23, 1863 in Niagara, Canada. Son of late Surgeon-Major-General G. L. Hinde, C. B. Grandson of Benjamin Hinde,Tarbert, Company Kerry.

Education

France; Germany; Clare College Cambridge. Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Resident Medical Officer North Stafford Hospital and Temperance Hospital, London, 1889-1890.

Congo Free State Service.

Arab Campaign, 1892-1894 (medal and star for service).

Career

Of England, married in London on 23 November 1861. They had two children, Sidney Langford Hinde, and Rhoda Hinde, (born 1865), both of whom were born in Canada. In 1895, Hinde was posted to Machakos Fort in the East African Protectorate Service where he was appointed Resident to the Maasai Chief and Collector of Maasailand.

Hinde was credited with aiding the overthrow of the infamous African slave trader Tippu Tip, and his successor, Sefu.

A List of names on Mount Kenya#Peaks mountain valley on Mount Kenya is named after him. Hinde Falls on Athi River is also named after the Hindes.

Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde

Sidney was married to anthropologist and zoologist, Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde (née Ginsburg) (1871 - 20 February 1959), who discovered three species of small mammal while in Africa. She wrote several grammars and vocabularies of East African languages as well.

He was in the Congo from 1891 to 1894, and in the East African Protectorate (now Kenya) from 1895 to 1915.

Bibliography

Hinde wrote two books and an article for an ornithological journal:

Louisiana Chute de la domination des arabes du Congo (1897), (translated from the English) Librairie Européene G. Muquardt, Bruxelles

The Fall of the Congo Arabs (1897), Methuen & Company, London

"On birds observed near Machako"s Station, in British East Africa", in The Ibis, Volume 4 (1898), Gurney & Jackson, London

The Last of the Masai (1901) (with Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde), William Heinemann, London.

Works

• book

  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Fall of the Congo Arabs The year 1892 m...)

  • The Fall Of The Congo Arabs FACSIMILE

    (HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Hinde, Sidney Langfo...)

  • The Last of the Masai - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    (This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original ...)

  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    (This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 18...)

  • The Last of the Masai

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The Last of the Masai - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • The Last of the Masai 1901 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 213. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

Membership

Clubs: Savage, Sports’. Societe Africaine, Brussels.

• Clubs: Savage, Sports’; Societe Africaine, Brussels.

Interests

• Shooting, hunting.

Connections

Father:

Surgeon-Major-General G. L. Hinde