was painted by Beard and engraved by Mote. Another was engraved by Findon. Pinnock married a sister of his partner, Samuel Maunder.
His son, William Henry Pinnock (1813–1885), divine and author, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduated LL.B. in 1850 and LL.D. in 1855, being placed in the first class of the law tripos, and in 1859 he was admitted ad eundem at Oxford. He was ordained in 1843, and acted as curate and locum tenens of Somersham and Colne in Huntingdonshire for two successive regius professors of divinity at Cambridge. He was English chaplain at Chantilly from 1870 to 1876, when he became curate in charge of All Saints', Dalston. In 1879 he was presented to the vicarage of Pinner, Hertfordshire, where he died on 30 Nov. 1885.
In his earlier years Pinnock, like his father, compiled elementary textbooks. He revised and improved the twenty-first edition of the ‘Catechism of Astronomy,’ and edited a new edition (1847) of the ‘History of England made easy.’ He also wrote a continuation of Pinnock's abridgment of Goldsmith's ‘History of England,’ 46th edit. 1858. Many gross errors in this were pointed out in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ (1859, pp. 261, 594–6). He was author of several works upon ecclesiastical laws and usages, and some scriptural manuals by him, which were clearly written, were largely used in schools. His chief works were: 1. ‘The Laws and Usages of the Church and Clergy—the Unbeneficed Clerk,’ 2nd edit. 1854. 2. ‘Rubrics for Communicants, explanatory of the Holy Communion Office … with Prayers,’ 1863, 12mo. 3. ‘The Law of the Rubric; and the Transition Period of the Church of England,’ 1866. 4. ‘The Church Key, Belfry Key, and Organ Key, with legal cases and opinions, parish lay councils, and the autocracy of the clergy,’ 1870. 5. A posthumous work in two volumes, ‘The Bible and Contemporary History: an Epitome of the History of the World from the Creation to the end of the Old Testament,’ was edited by E. M. B. in 1887. Pinnock also edited ‘Clerical Papers on Church and Parishioners,’ 6 vols. 1852–63 (Times, 5 Dec. 1885).
[Jerdan's Men I have known, pp. 336–47; Literary Gazette, 18 Nov. 1843, and Autobiography, passim; Alton parish register; Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit. ii. 1600; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Ann. Reg. 1843, App. to Chron. p. 306; Evans's Cat. Engl. Portraits, No. 208, 349.]
PINTO, Mrs. (d. 1802), singer. [See Brent, Charlotte.]
PINTO, THOMAS (1710?–1773), violinist, was born in England about 1710, of Neapolitan parents. His genius for violin-playing developed early, and at the age of eleven it was said that he could play the whole of Corelli's concertos. Before he was twenty he led a number of important concerts, including those in the St. Cecilia Hall at Edinburgh. His astonishing powers of reading even the most difficult music at sight led to carelessness and neglect of practice, and he ‘affected the fine gentleman rather than the musical student … a switch in his hand displaced the forgotten fiddle-stick’ (Dubourg, The Violin, 1832). The success of Giardini, who came to England in 1750, roused in him an ambition not to be outdone. Making greater efforts than hitherto, he became leader of the Italian opera on those occasions on which Giardini was engaged elsewhere. He was also at various times first violinist at Drury Lane Theatre, and leader at provincial festivals, including those of Hereford and Worcester (1758), Gloucester (1760), and at Vauxhall Gardens. In 1769, when Arnold purchased Marylebone Gardens, Pinto took some share in the speculation, and was leader of the orchestra. The venture proved a failure, and Pinto took refuge, first in Edinburgh, and subsequently in Ireland, where he led the band at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin. There he died in 1773 (O'Keeffe, Recollections, 1826, pp. 346–7). A portrait of Pinto, engraved ad vivum by Reinagle, is mentioned by Bromley.
Pinto was twice married: first, to Sybilla Gronamann, daughter of a German clergyman; and, secondly, to Charlotte Brent [q. v.], the singer and favourite pupil of Dr. Arne, who died in poverty in 1802. With her, Pinto made several prolonged tours. A daughter of Pinto, by his first wife, married one Sauters, by whom she had a son,
George Frederic Pinto (1787–1806), who assumed the surname of his grandfather, was born at Lambeth 23 Sept. 1787, and after studying under Salomon and Viotti, took part as a violinist at the age of twelve in the concerts at Covent Garden; at fifteen he appeared in public performances of Haydn's symphonies at Salomon's concerts. After 1800 Pinto travelled with Salomon, playing at Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Edinburgh, where his success was remarkable, and twice visited Paris. Besides playing the violin, Pinto was an excellent pianist, and from the age of sixteen years he wrote sonatas for pianoforte solo and with violin, and a large number of songs. Several of the songs enjoyed considerable vogue in their day.
