Claude Hinscliff
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Reverend Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) was a British suffragist.[1][2] He was a leading person in the Church League for Women's Suffrage.
Education and early career[edit]
Hinscliff studied for his licentiate in theology at Durham University. He matriculated in 1893 and was awarded a scholarship after performing well in the admissions exam.[3] As a student he coxed for the university boat club.[4] A member of Hatfield Hall, he graduated in 1896.[5] As reported in 15 June 1897 edition of The Times, he was ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Norwich and attached to Parham and Hacheston in Suffolk.[6] In December 1899 he was ordained a priest at St George in the Meadows, Nottingham.[7] By 1905 he was Vicar of Bobbing in Kent.[8]
Involvement with women's suffrage[edit]
Hinscliff is most notable for his involvement in the British suffrage movement. He founded the Anglican Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1909, and was its secretary for a long time.[1][9] He and fellow member Charles Baumgarten (and, according to the Church Times, the Archdeacon of Lewisham, Charles Escreet[10]), conducted the funeral service of Emily Davison in St. George's, Bloomsbury, where Baumgarten was vicar.[11]
Later life[edit]
By 1913 he had become very uncomfortable with the militancy of suffragettes, which included arson attacks on churches, and as a result the Church League began to distance itself from the WSPU.[12] He resigned his position as honorary organiser in 1914 on doctor's orders, having been diagnosed with myocarditis in 1911.[13] He then worked in Europe. In 1920 he served on the staff of the Serbian Relief Fund and by March of the following year was established as British Chaplain in Belgrade.[14] He soon moved on to Romania, where he served as the British Chaplain in Bucharest from 1921-1924.[15]
Legacy[edit]
His name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.[16][17][18]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Krista Cowman (9 December 2010). Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-1-137-26801-3.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Scholarships, Exhibitions". Durham University Journal. 10 (1–18): 212. 4 November 1893.
- ^ "Boating". Durham University Journal. 10 (1–18): 242. 16 December 1893.
- ^ "Durham University calendar 1897". reed.dur.ac.uk. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ "Ordinations". The Times: 15. 15 June 1897.
- ^ "Ordinations". Durham University Journal. 14: 24. 1900.
- ^ "Preferments and Appointments". Durham University Journal. 16: 224. 1904–1905.
- ^ Graham Neville (1998). Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism. Clarendon Press. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-0-19-826977-9.
- ^ Street, Peter. "Death on the path to suffrage". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ Elizabeth Crawford (2 September 2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge. pp. 475–. ISBN 1-135-43401-8.
- ^ Inkpin, Jonathan (1996). Combatting the 'sin of self-sacrifice'?: Christian feminism in the women's suffrage struggle, 1903-1918 (PDF). Durham: Durham University (Thesis). pp. 211–212.
- ^ Inkpin, p. 168
- ^ "Yugoslavia". The Near East: 285. 10 March 1921.
- ^ "SGITE Clergy 1900-". St George-in-the-East Church. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Historic statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett unveiled in Parliament Square". Gov.uk. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Topping, Alexandra (24 April 2018). "First statue of a woman in Parliament Square unveiled". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Millicent Fawcett statue unveiling: the women and men whose names will be on the plinth". iNews. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.