Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside

The Right Honourable The Lord Hinton of Bankside OM KBE FRS FREng
Born	12 May 1901 Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Died	22 June 1983 (aged 82) London, England, UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Nuclear
Known for	Calder Hall
Notable awards	Wilhelm Exner Medal (1956) Albert Medal (1957) Rumford Medal (1970) James Watt International Medal (1973) Order of Merit (1976)

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside OM KBE FRS FREng (12 May 1901 – 22 June 1983) was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station.

Hinton was born on 12 May 1901 at Tisbury, Wiltshire. He attended school in Chippenham where his father was a schoolmaster, and left school at 16 to become an engineering apprentice with the Great Western Railway at Swindon. At 22 he was awarded the William Henry Allen scholarship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first class honours degree.

Hinton then worked for Brunner Mond, later part of ICI, where he became Chief Engineer at the age of 29. At Brunner Mond he met Lillian Boyer (d. 1973) whom he married in 1931. They had one daughter, Mary (1932–2014), who married Arthur Mole, son of Sir Charles Mole, director-general of the Ministry of Works.

During World War II, Hinton was seconded to the Ministry of Supply and became Deputy Director General, running ordnance factory construction and in charge of the Royal Filling Factories.

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