His wife was the internationally famous pianist Katharine Goodson, who gave the first performance of his Piano Concerto in D minor in 1905.
He stayed on at the Academy as a sub-professor, before travelling to Munich for further study with Josef Rheinberger (and after his death Karel Navrátil), extending his trip with periods in Vienna and Rome.
[4] In this capacity he visited Australia twice, as well as Canada and Jamaica, and he also spent time in America, where Goodson's advocacy helped gain him some recognition and publication.
[9] Hinton was one of the composers featured in Granville Bantock's concert of new music by himself and his friends, put on at Queen's Hall on 15 December 1896.
[10][11] (Other composers included in this group were William Wallace, Reginald Steggall, Stanley Hawley (1867-1916) and Henry Erskine Allon).
[16][5] Other works include the opera Tamara (composed while he was in Rome), two children's operettas (The Disagreeable Princess and St Elizabeth's Roses), Chant des Vagues for cello and orchestra (which achieved frequent performances), a Suite for violin and piano (1903), the Violin Sonata (1903, played by Émile Sauret), the six movement piano suite A Summer Pilgrimage (1916), and dramatic vocal settings of Porphyria's Lover (Browning) and Epipsychidion (Shelley).