Donald Hinton died at Bromsgrove General Hospital on 22nd May, 1961. He was 58 years of age.
Born in Warwick, Mr. Hinton was educated at Ellesmere and Penzance before training at the Camborne School of Metalliferous Mining from 1919 to 1922. After gaining their first-class Diploma he joined African Selection Trust, Ltd., in 1923 and carried out a year’s prospecting for alluvial diamonds on the Gold Coast. In April, 1925, he was appointed mining assistant and surveyor with Ropp Tin, Ltd., and London Corporation, Ltd., and worked in Northern Nigeria with those companies until 1931.
In 1937 he joined Ex-Lands Nigeria, Ltd., as mining engineer in charge of production and prospecting. Ten years later he was appointed mine manager and attorney of the company, having acted in that capacity during 1946, and in 1951 became general manager. He was made general manager of Gold and Base Metals of Nigeria, Ltd., in 1953 and remained with that company until his retirement in 1960. During that period he was the senior general manager of the Finsbury Pavement House group of mining companies. On his return to England Mr. Hinton settled in Hampshire.
Mr. Hinton was elected a Student of the Institution in 1922; he was transferred to Associate Membership in 1929 and to Membership in 1955. He had been a prominent member of the Committee for the Nigerian Section of the Institution since its inception in 1953, and a member of the Northern Nigerian Chamber of Mines for many years.
Vol. 71, Trans IMM 1961-1962, pp.555-6
