(Redirected from Martin A.C. Hinton)'Martin Alister Campbell Hinton' (
June 29,
1883 -
October 3,
1961) was a British
zoologist.
Hinton joined the staff of the
Natural History Museum in 1921, working on
mammals, in particular
rodents. He became Deputy keeper of Zoology in 1927 and keeper in 1936, retiring in 1945.
Hinton is among those associated with the
Piltdown Man hoax, a fabricated skull allegedly discovered at a dig in Piltdown, England, and presented as a
missing link between man and ape.