Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton, born Swansea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 7th March 1813. On Friday, March 7, 1913, on his one hundredth birthday he was the oldest living officer in the Empire and the oldest living member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He died in 1916 at the age of 103. Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton's story is told from his journal, written in January 1887, and newspaper clippings held by his great great grandson, Philip Bramley.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Boys will be boyz
We were very fond of sea bathing, and sometimes played truant in consequence, until one sad day it was reported to my father that we had not been to school - so we were sent up to the bedroom while he found a thick rope to give us a thrashing - by the time he found it I had passed a copy book up my back, and the blows fell harmelss, and I daresay inflicted as much pain to his mind, as to my back.
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