John Kinder

John Kinder (17 September 1819 5 September 1903) was a British / New Zealand Anglican clergyman, teacher, artist and photographer.

Life Kinder was born in London, United Kingdom, on 17 September 1819, the oldest surviving child of a wealthy merchant and his second wife. originally studying Mathematics but Classics and Theology were where his true interests lay. During the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s, Kinder was a chaplain to the British Forces. Kinder received a Doctor of Divinity in 1873 from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Painting and photography While most of Kinder's life was devoted to theology and education, he became known after his death as an artist and photographer. Most of his work centred around landscape and architectural portraits. They were first shown in 1871 and again 1873 by the Auckland Society of Artists of which Kinder was a founding member. The John Kinder Theological Library is the library and archives for St John's College as well as for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.

From September 2013 to April 2014, Kinder was the subject of an exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery titled Kinder's Presence.

A topographical map of Auckland which Kinder drew is now held in the Hocken Library in Dunedin.