Hinks, Arthur Robert (1873–1945), astronomer and geographer, was born in Stoke Newington, London, on 26 May 1873, the eldest of the five sons and three daughters of Robert Hinks, a civil servant and later university lecturer, of Croydon, Surrey, and his wife, Mary, ...
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Lily, George (d. 1559), Roman Catholic ecclesiastic and cosmographer, was born in London, the eldest son of William Lily (1468?–1522/3) and his wife, Agnes. Probably privately educated by his father, a scholar and teacher, Lily may have become a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford...
