John Hine (bishop of Grantham)
John Edward Hine MRCS (10 April 1857[1] – 9 April 1934) was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]
Life
Hine was born in Nottingham[3] in 1857[4] and educated at University College School and University College, London.[5] A medical doctor,[6] after ordination he was sent as a missionary to Likoma Island in Lake Malawi[7] and was soon promoted to be Bishop of Likoma.[8] Successively translated to Zanzibar and then Northern Rhodesia, in 1916 he returned to England, firstly as Vicar of Lastingham and after that suffragan bishop of Grantham. In 1930, Hine resigned his see and became an assistant bishop, at William Swayne (Bishop of Lincoln)'s request, to make way for Ernest Blackie.[9] He resigned his archdeaconry on 30 June 1933, remaining assistant bishop[10] until the next year.
As Bishop of Grantham he was the only prelate that psychic researcher Harry Price was able to obtain to witness the opening of Joanna Southcott's box which Price in 1927 claimed to have come into possession of: it was found to contain only a few oddments and unimportant papers, among them a lottery ticket and a horse-pistol. Price's claims to have had the true box have been disputed by historians and by followers of Southcott.[11][12]
A statue, carved in 1956 and placed on the west front of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, commemorates Hine. It depicts the bishop with a cat, that is playing with the tassel of Hine's robe.[13]
References
- ^ The Anglo-African Who's who and Biographical Sketch-book. George Routledge & Sons, Limited. 1907. p. 146.
- ^ Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (14 April 1934). "Rev. John Edward Hine, D.D., D.C.L., M.D". Br Med J. 1 (3823): 695. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3823.695-b. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2444866. PMID 20778204.
{{cite journal}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
- ^ Who was Who 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ University Intelligence. London The Times Saturday, 6 December 1879; p. 5; Issue 29744; col F
- ^ BMJ obituary[permanent dead link]
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 598.
- ^ ”The Clergy List” London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ "Presentation to the Bishop of Grantham". Church Times. No. 3500. 21 February 1930. p. 213. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "Resignations". Church Times. No. 3668. 12 May 1933. p. 562. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ Ackland, Michael (2004). Henry Handel Richardson: a life. Cambridge University Press. p. 237. ISBN 0-521-84055-4.
- ^ Hall, Trevor (October 1978). Search for Harry Price. Gerald Duckworth and Company. pp. 154–160. ISBN 0-7156-1143-7.
- ^ Knapp, M. G. (2004), The Parish Church of St Wulfram, Grantham, Rector and Churchwardens of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham.