Sir Francis Hincks, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (December 14, 1807 – August 18, 1885) was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in Cork

Cork (city)

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, Ireland

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, he was the son of Thomas Dix Hincks

Thomas Dix Hincks

Thomas Dix Hincks was an Irish orientalist and naturalist.Hincks was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained a Presbysterian minister and worked at the Old Presbyterian Church on Princes Street in Cork. After teaching in the Cork Institution, which he founded, he taught in Fermoy,...

 an orientalist, naturalist and Presbyterian minister and the brother of Edward Hincks

Edward Hincks

The Reverend Edward Hincks was an Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform....

 orientalist, naturalist and clergyman.

He moved to York (Toronto

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) in 1832 and set up an importing business there. He rented property from William Warren Baldwin

William Warren Baldwin

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 and his son, Robert Baldwin

Robert Baldwin

Robert Baldwin was born at York . He, along with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, led the first responsible ministry in Canada, regarded by some as the first truly Canadian government....

, becoming friends with the family.