Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph

[2] From Truro Grammar School, Hingston went on in 1851 to Exeter College, Oxford, as Elliott exhibitioner.

in 1855 with an honorary fourth class degree in the final pass school, and proceeded M.A.

Ordained in 1856, he served as curate of Holywell, Oxfordshire, until 1858, when he moved to Hampton Gay, in the same county, succeeding to the incumbency of the parish next year.

In 1860 he became rector of Ringmore, near Kingsbridge in Devon, where the patronage to the living later became vested in his family.

[1][2] An early work was Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses and Fonts (London and Truro, 1850).

[1] He published also Records of a Rocky Shore, by a Country Parson (1876) and The Constitution of the Cathedral Body of Exeter (1887).

[1] In the late 1850s, Hingeston courted the eldest daughter of Joseph Stevenson, the principal instigator of the Rolls Series.

At his father-in-law's wish, he then added the name of Randolph to his own and adopted Hingeston, an earlier form of the spelling of his family surname.