[1] He came from a long line of stonemasons and quarrymen, including his father, who worked in the Box Quarries mining Bath stone.
[2] In the mid-1860s Pinker left Box and travelled to London, where he found employment as a mason in Kensington.
He undertook many highly skilled tasks, not only for the Department of Antiquities but also for other areas of the British Museum.
[3] He played a significant role in situating fragments of the Elgin Marbles, and also advised during the construction of the model of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
Two days before his death, he was granted an OBE in the 1932 Birthday Honours by King George V. Pinker died on 3 June 1932, at the age of 85.