Rev. John Hothersall Pinder

Son of Francis Ford Pinder (q.v.) and Elizabeth Christian nee Maynard. Born Barbados, 27 April, 1794 and baptised 9 May 1794 in St Michael. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'college head'. After school at Charterhouse and university at Cambridge (1812-16), ordination as a deacon (1818) and priest (1819), returned to Barbados. Chaplain at Codrington plantation, 1818-27, Principal of Codrington College, 1829-35, Principal of Wells Theological College, 1840-65, Precentor of Wells Cathedral, 1840-68, Prebendary of Wells, 1840-52, Canon Residentiary, 1852-68. Died 16 April 1868 at West Malvern. Married Anne Brathwaite Gibbons, daughter of Scawen Kenrick Gibbons (II) [q.v.]. He was the author of, among other works, the proslavery Advice to Servants; being five Family Lectures delivered to Domestic Slaves in the island of Barbadoes, in the Year 1822 (London, 1824), favourably reviewed by the Christian Remembrancer 6 (1824), pp. 151-4. His pro-slavery are writings not mentioned in his ODNB entry. He has a likeness in the National Portrait Gallery, a mezzotint after a portrait by Sir William Boxall.

W. M. Jacob, ‘Pinder, John Hothersall (1794–1868)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2016 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49392, accessed 31 May 2017]; Familysearch.org, Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887 [database online]; NPG D40224.

We are grateful to Keith Jeffery for his assistance with compiling this entry.