Claude Hinscliff

Claude Hinscliff (1913)

Reverend Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) was a British suffragist. He was a leading member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage.[1]

Education and early career

Hinscliff matriculated at Durham University in 1893 to study for a licentiate in theology, and was awarded a scholarship following his performance in the entrance examination.[2] A member of Hatfield Hall, he also coxed for the university boat club and graduated in 1896.[3][4]

He was ordained deacon in the Diocese of Norwich in 1897 and served at Parham and Hacheston in Suffolk.[5] In December 1899, he was ordained priest at St George in the Meadows, Nottingham.[6] By 1905, he was vicar of Bobbing in Kent.[7]

Involvement with women's suffrage

Hinscliff founded the Church League for Women's Suffrage, an Anglican organisation supporting women's suffrage, in 1909 and served for several years as its secretary.[8] In June 1913, he participated in the funeral service of suffragette Emily Davison at St George's, Bloomsbury, alongside the church's vicar, Charles Baumgarten.[9][10]

By 1913, Hinscliff had become increasingly opposed to suffragette militancy, particularly arson attacks against churches, and the Church League consequently began to distance itself from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).[11] Having been diagnosed with myocarditis in 1911, he resigned as the league's honorary organiser in 1914 on medical advice.[12]

Hinscliff is among the 59 supporters of women's suffrage whose names and portraits appear on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.[13]

Later life

Hinscliff later worked in Europe. In 1920, he served on the staff of the Serbian Relief Fund, and by March 1921 was British chaplain in Belgrade.[14] He subsequently moved to Romania, serving as British chaplain in Bucharest from 1921 to 1924.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Courage calls to courage everywhere: the male campaigners for universal suffrage noted on the Millicent Fawcett statue. – Women's Business Council". Women's Business Council. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Scholarships, Exhibitions". Durham University Journal. 10 (1–18): 212. 4 November 1893.
  3. ↑ "Boating". Durham University Journal. 10 (1–18): 242. 16 December 1893.
  4. ↑ "Durham University calendar 1897". Durham University. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ordinations". The Times. 15 June 1897. p. 15.
  6. ↑ "Ordinations". Durham University Journal. 14: 24. 1900.
  7. ↑ "Preferments and Appointments". Durham University Journal. 16: 224. 1904–1905.
  8. ↑ Neville, Graham (1998). Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism. Clarendon Press. p. 165. ISBN 9780198269779.
  9. ↑ Crawford, Elizabeth (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928. Routledge. p. 475. ISBN 9781135434021.
  10. ↑ Street, Peter (31 May 2013). "Death on the path to suffrage". Church Times. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  11. ↑ Inkpin, Jonathan (1996). Combatting the 'sin of self-sacrifice'?: Christian feminism in the women's suffrage struggle, 1903–1918 (PDF) (Thesis). Durham University. pp. 211–212.
  12. ↑ Inkpin, Jonathan (1996). Combatting the 'sin of self-sacrifice'?: Christian feminism in the women's suffrage struggle, 1903–1918 (PDF) (Thesis). Durham University. p. 168.
  13. ↑ "Historic statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett unveiled in Parliament Square". UK Government. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "Yugoslavia". The Near East: 285. 10 March 1921.
  15. ↑ "SGITE Clergy 1900–". St George-in-the-East Church. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
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