sketcher and teacher, was born in India, son of John Hinder junior. Educated in Ireland, he came to Adelaide in the Hughli in 1846, but by 1849 he was at Ebenezer, New South Wales, apprenticed to a builder. In 1852 he began a long teaching career at St James’s Church of England School at Pitt Town, subsequently teaching at Anglican schools in Kelso (from 1857), Wilberforce (1860) and Smithfield (1871). Appointed principal of the Protestant Orphan School at Parramatta in 1873, he remained there until he retired. An oval pencil drawing of a rural scene and residence (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW) is inscribed on the back of the mount: 'This primitive picture is thought to be a sketch by Edward Robert Hinder, when a young man living in Ebenezer. He had no formal art training, but as a hobby throughout his life he sketched and copied pictures’.

Hinder married Miss Sophia Ford at Wilberforce (near Ebenezer) on 11 February 1851. Their son, Robert John, was headmaster of East Maitland High School for twenty-five years, while another son, Dr Henry Vincent Critchley Hinder (1865-1913), was a noted art collector, father of artist Frank Hinder. Edward Hinder died in his home at Summer Hill, Sydney, on 15 June 1894.

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1992

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