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JOHN WILLIAM HINCHLEY was born at Grantham in 1871, but at an early age was resident in Lincoln, and was a pupil at the Grammar School. He obtained valuable experience as an engineer with Ruston, Proctor and Co. and with the Reliance Ironworks at Lincoln. In 1893, Hinchley gained a National Scholarship and became a student at the Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines, South Kensington. Here his career was brilliant, and he obtained a Whitworth Exhibition (1894) and later a Whitworth Scholarship (1896), but he did not avail himself of this. Whilst a student, those keen interests, which he maintained throughout his life, in all that would help his fellows were evidenced by his activities in the Students' Union, on the committee of the old students' rooms—indeed a dreary place compared with the premises of to-day—and the debating society.
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S. B., J. Prof. J. W. Hinchley. Nature 128, 402 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128402a0
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