Reginald L Hine

1883-1949

He was a prolific writer of books relating to Hitchin and anyone researching Hitchin should familiarize themselves with his works. 

There is a biographical account in Relics of an Un-Common Attorney

Books

• Hitchin Priory (1919)

• The History of Hitchin (2 volumes) 1927-1929

• Samuel Lucas, His Life and Art Work (1928)

• A Mirror for the Society of Friends: Being the Story of the Hitchin Quakers (1929 - revised 1930)

• A Short Story of St Mary's, Hitchin (1930, 4th edition 1946)

• History of Hitchin Grammar School (1931)

• The Official Guide to Hitchin (1932)

• Hitchin Worthies (1932)

• The Natural History of The Hitchin Region(1934)

• The Story of Methodism at Hitchin (1934)

• The Story of the Sun Hotel (1937)

• The Story of Hitchin Town (~1938, later reprints)

• Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney (1946)

• Hitchin Old and New: Fifty Photographs and Drawings (1946)

• The Hitchin Countryside: Photographs and Drawings (1946)

• Charles Lamb and His Hertfordshire (1949)

• Relics of an Un-Common Attorney (1951)

Articles, etc.

A polite bow to our predecessors, Hertfordshire Countryside, Summer 1946
Review of early historical accounts of the county - see Chauncy & Salmon
A Pack of hounds in 1688, Hertfordshire Countryside, Spring 1947

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