[5] The 18-year-old Hinton explained the rules to his friends, most of them English from Madeira, but also some Portuguese from wealthy families,[4] and then, on a summer afternoon, he organized the first-ever football match in Portugal at the Largo da Achada,[6][7] which was played by British only.
[3][8] In addition to football, Hinton also enjoyed hunting, which he practiced alongside several nobles, such as King Carlos I, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, and the Nicholas Maximilianovitch, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg.
[3] In addition to having considerably expanded the facilities, which included an analysis laboratory, and having acquired modern machinery, Hinton introduced methods designed to make the most of the raw material, namely the patented Hinton-Naudet and Hinton-Marsden systems, being the first aimed at obtaining maximum sucrose and the second at improving sugarcane crushing.
[3] The entrepreneur acquired other factories and expanded his business to different territories, namely Angola, where he lived a considerable part of his life and where he was the founder and main shareholder of the Agrícola de Cassequel company.
[3] He also contributed to the reconstruction and beautification of Catholic temples, with the gift of a clock to the church of Santo António in Funchal as part of the works carried out in that space between 1922 and 1928, and the purchase and restoration of the religious cult in the Capela da Consolação, at the expense of his second wife, Isabel.
[3][9] In 1908, Hinton acquired the Quinta das Palmeiras [pt], one of the largest with Madeiran farms with an area of 42.5 hectares, located in the parish of Santa Luzia, 2km from the center of Funchal.
[3] Besides the bookstore, he also enriched the collection of the Funchal Municipal Museum [pt], by offering it a sword believed to have belonged to João Gonçalves Zarco, which he had purchased from the Cossart family.
[2] His funeral was held on the following day and was attended by several civil and military authorities, such as José Leite Monteiro, interim district governor, and Ernesto Honorato Ferreira, representing the Funchal City Council.