Charles Howard Hinton is actually a very prominent figure in the history of eccentric mathematicians. Anyone who read Rudy Rucker's book about the fourth dimension in the 90s knew about the earlier Hinton's bigamy and superstitions.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=8J0djs-FK_8C&pg=PA65&lpg=PA...

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/06/08/alicia-boole-charl...