Mary Hinton (actress)

Mary Hinton (1896–1979) was a British stage, film and television actress.

She was a great-granddaughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch.

In the West End she appeared in Wilfrid Grantham's Mary Tudor (1935), Rose Franken's Claudia (1942) and Lesley Storm's Great Day (1945).

She was a keen yachtswoman,[3] owning the cutter Foxhound, and participating in the 1956 Newport Bermuda Race, as the only lady skipper.

[4] She was the first female Flag Officer of the Royal Ocean Racing Club.