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.
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
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]