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
Going to school in Portsmouth
For several years we went to a school in Portsmouth kept by a Mr Waggett, we learnt the Eton Latin Grammar by heart, but understood little of it - the cane was frequently used in school, and on one occasion the master threatened to continue beating a boy until he did confess to having done something wrong - so the boy confessed at once - next day the Master had to apologise before all the boys for his unjust treatment, ujnder pain of four brothers being withdrawn from the school - the one punished was the bgest of them, and one of the others was the lazier. The father was a large farmer who afterwards went to America.
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