 He served as a director of the Protestant Dissenters' Life and Fire Assurance Society, (whose name evolved gradually to General Life ...),The People's Provident Assurance Society, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, and the Union Bank of Australia.Hindley was named as a director of the South Australian Company by October 1835 (although other advertisements in October 1835 omit him ) and hence was one of the 
founding shareholders of the South Australia Company listed on the Deed of Settlement of January 1836.