Major Rowley Willes Hinxman
(1832-1906)
20 June 1864

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Born in Bloomsbury on 20 June 1831, his father was John Hinxman, a navy agent, entrepreneur and art collector. He was baptised at St George's Bloomsbury on 27 January 1834.

Following his education at Harrow, he joined the 60th Foot as a Second Lieutenant on 23 November 1849. He served in India during the Indian Mutiny campaign and was present at the siege and capture of Delhi.

He is recorded in Hart’s Army List (1867) as a Captain in the 60th (King’s Royal Rifle Corps). He appears on the 1881 census, a boarder at 45 Manchester Street, Marylebone. At the time of the census, he was 49 years old, so he was born in or about 1832. He gave London as his place of birth and for profession he gave ‘Colonel, 60th Rifles.'

On 2 June 1866, at Rangoon in Burma, he married Julia Delafons Grigg Greenlaw. The marriage produced one daughter, Mabel Agnes Wykeham Hinxman, born in Indian on 7 March 1867.

Major-General Rowley Willes Hinxman, Colonel-Commandant of the King's Royal Rifles (4th Battalion), died on 4 July 1906, aged 75, at 44 Denbigh Street in Pimlico. The cause of death was a 'malignant disease of the larynx.' He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.