The story
Thomas Hine & Co. is named after its proprietor Thomas Hine (sometimes recorded as Thomas Hone), an Englishman from Dorset. The company was founded in 1763. Following his arrest during the French Revolution, Thomas Hine married a young woman, Françoise Elizabeth Delamain, whose father owned a cognac house in Jarnac. Hine took control of the house, and eventually renamed it Thomas Hine & Co. in 1817.
Hine is one of three cognac houses—alongside Delamain and Croizet—that have continuously maintained stocks of vintage (single-harvest) cognacs.
From Wikipedia’s article on Thomas Hine & Co., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3