Surname: Hingston Forename(s): Francis b. 27 November 1796. d. 7 October 1841. Nationality: English.
Poet. Born in St. Ives, Cornwall. Married Jane Matilda Wilson Kirkness on 5 August
1828. Customs controller at Truro. Contributed to Biographical Sketches in Cornwall (1831). Biographical information: ODNB ; Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph (ed.) The Poems of Francis Hingston, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857), pp. ix-xii. (NM)