Thomas Hinde

Doctor Thomas Hinde Northern Kentucky's first physician. Born in Oxfordshire, England, on July 10, 1737. He studied physics and surgery under Dr. Thomas Brooke at Saint Thomas Hospital in London, and at the age of nineteen, his master presented him the Company of Surgeons for a license. Shortly after he received the Commission of Surgeons' Mate in the Royal Navy and sailed for America with the forces under the command of General Amherst. After landing in New York on June 10, 1757, he spent time at Halifax and Louisbourg. It was his good fortune to be attached to the ship which bore the commander in chief, General James Wolfe, on his way to Quebec. The General later died in Dr. Hinde's arms. This death has been painted and shows Dr. Hinde feeling the pulse of the wounded General.

In 1765 he settled in Virginia; he was the personal physician to Patrick Henry. Chief Surgeon, in 1775, for the "Gun Powder Expedition". He practiced medicine in Newport, Kentucky from the early 1800s until his death Sept. 28, 1828.

Hinde married Mary Todd Hubbard, daughter of Benjamin Hubbard, an English merchant. They had eight children. His daughter, Ann Winston Hinde married Richard Southgate 30 July 1799 in Newport, Kentucky.