Frank Hinds 1861 to 1944
Frank was born on 20th February 1861 to solicitor, George Hinds and Sarah Ann Parker in Goudhurst, Kent. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1885 after studying at the University of London.
A Kent man, Dr Hinds qualified at University College Hospital, London, and became house surgeon and house physician there. Later he was resident medical officer at the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond-street, London. He came to Worthing in the late1880's and retired from his private practice in 1928.
Dr Hind married Mary Helen Moss in 1889 at St. Botolph’s Church, Heene and had three sons and three daughters.
Dr Hinds spent 50 years working in Worthing in private practice and at Worthing Hospital. He was given a paper crown by the nurses at Worthing Hospital in recognition that he had spent 50 Christmas Days on duty at the hospital. He was a well known doctor serving as a surgeon, a physician, a witness in the coroner's court and advising local medical officers.
Frank's unmarried sisters moved to Worthing between 1910 and 1921. Mary, Jessie, Sarah and Mary Louisa lived together in their later years at Edenhurst, Belsize Road. Both Mary's were buried in Heene Cemetery.
Frank died in 1944 and was buried in Durrington Cemetery, Findon Road, Worthing.
Write up of Frank's wedding to Mary Helen Moss at St. Botolph's Church, Heene with Rev Fallowes as the celebrant.
DR, F. HINDS AND MiSS M. H. MOSS. A large congregation of friends and well-wishers assembled at St. Botolph's Church, Heene, on Wednesday afternoon, to witness the marriage of Dr. Frank Hinds, of the Steyne, Worthing, to Miss Mary Helen Moss, daughter of Mr. M. H. Moss, of 'Belsize',Mill-road, West Worthing, The bride, who was given away by her elder brother, Mr, Lionel Boyd Moss, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, wore a dress of ivory satin with a court train from the left shoulder, trimmed with chiffon and orange blossom, the bodice being trimmed with duchesse lace, and she also bad a tulle veil and carried a lovely shower bouquet. There wero five bridesmaids—Miss Winifred Winnett, Miss Winifred Eley, and Miss Madge Boyd (cousins of the bride), Miss Edith Hinds (sister of the bridegroom), and Miss Edith Underwood—each of whom was attired in & dress of ivory silk trimmed with yellow chiffon, with white hats trimmed with chiffon and ostrich feathers. The bridesmaids’ bouquets were manly composed of daffodils, and they also wore safety pin brooches with a dove in pearls, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr, Littlewood attended Dr, Hinds as best man. The service, which was conducted by the Rector, the Rev. J. P. Fallowes, assisted by the Rev. H. J. de Turri Croft, Rector of Cottesbach, and brother-in-law of the bridegroom. was fully choral, and both during the assembling of the guests, and at the close of the ceremony the organist, Mr, Boyes, played a number of appropriate selections, On leaving the church the the party returned to “ Belsize,” where a reception was held in honour of the event, about 160 guests being present; and later in the day Dr. and Mrs. Hinds left Worthing for the honeymoon, which is to be spent at Venice and the Italian lakes The bride’s travelling dress was of grey cloth, with white silk vest and reverse embroidered with mauve velvet, while her hat was composed of Neapolitan velvet and osprey feathers, The wedding presents numbered over two hundred.