Thomas Dix Hincks was an Irish

Ireland

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 orientalist

Oriental studies

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 and naturalist

Naturalist

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Hincks was educated at Trinity College

Trinity College, Dublin

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, Dublin. He was ordained a Presbysterian minister and worked at the Old Presbyterian Church on Princes Street in Cork

Cork (city)

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. After teaching in the Cork Institution

Royal Cork Institution

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, which he founded, he taught in Fermoy

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, County Cork. In 1821 he was appointed Master of the Classical School at the Belfast Academical Institution

Royal Belfast Academical Institution

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, in 1822 becoming Professor of Oriental Languages. He gained a Doctorate in Laws from Glasgow University in 1834.
He wrote A Greek-English Lexicon. Containing all the words that occur in the books used in most schools and collegiate courses London: Whittaker & Co. Dublin and edited the Munster Agricultural Magazine in Cork.

Hincks was the father 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....

, an orientalist and clergyman, and Francis Hincks

Francis Hincks

Sir Francis Hincks, KCMG, PC was a Canadian politician.Born in Cork, Ireland, he was the son of Thomas Dix Hincks an orientalist, naturalist and Presbyterian minister and the brother of Edward Hincks orientalist, naturalist and clergyman.He moved to York in 1832 and set up an importing business...

 a Canadian politician.
He was a founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society

Belfast Natural History Society

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 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy

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