David Gordon Hines

David Gordon Hines was a British colonial officer and administrator, who had national responsibility for the development of cooperatives in Tanganyika and later in Uganda, improving the living standards of farmers in their transition from subsistence farming to cash crops. In Uganda, some 500,000 farmers joined these cooperatives during his period there.

David Hines was born in Staffordshire, England onFebruary 1915. His parents lived in Margherita, Assam, India where his father managed coal mines. His grandfather William Hines founded with his brother the Heron Cross Pottery in StokeonTrent. After a childhood largely in Barnstaple and at Blundells School in Tiverton, both in Devon, he was articled to Cooper Brothers, the accountants, in London.

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