Howard Hinton was born August 24, 1912, in Mexico of American parents, but attended high school and university in Berkeley, California. Then he entered Cambridge University in 1934 to study for a Ph.D. Between 1939 and 1949 he worked as a taxonomist in the Department of Entomology of the British Museum (Natural History) in London. He published copiously, including a 350-page work (1945) “A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products.” In 1945 he moved to Bristol University as Reader in Entomology, later being given a professorial chair and then becoming head of the Zoology Department. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society in 1961 and was president of the Royal Entomological Society of London in 1969–1970. His research covered many areas of insect anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and behavior. But he found time to publish (1967) “Mongooses; their natural history and behavior” and to found and edit two journals: “Journal of Insect Physiology” and “Insect Biochemistry.” He died in Bristol on August 2, 1977. The 3-volume book “Biology of insect eggs” on which he had been working just before his death was published in 1981.