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Name: HINE, John Edward (Rt. Rev. Bishop)

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Birth Date: 10 Apr 1857 Nottingham

Death Date: 9 Apr 1934 Lincoln

Nationality: British

First Date: 1889

Profession: Until 1914 with UMCA, 1st Bishop Likoma 1896, Zanzibar 1901/08. Tucker - visited the CMS in 1905. Dr. of Medicine as well as Divinity

Area: Likoma, Zanzibar, N. Rhodesia, returned to Lincoln 1914

Author: Days Gone By

Book Reference: Gillett, Tucker, North

School: Univ Coll School and Univ Coll London

General Information:

Later became Bishop of Grantham
Reading Museum John Edward Hine was an experienced British Anglican missionary and Bishops of Likoma and then Zanzibar before being appointed as the first Bishop of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1910 until 1914. He had only three staff to cover an area about two-and-a-half times the size of the British Isles; though there were other Christian dominations already working in the country, Bishop Hine noted: 'There are large tracts of country untouched by any of these societies: it will be our aim to work, as far as may be possible, in a spirit of brotherly co-operation with all those who have already done so much and have been pioneers of Christianity in this land.'
Wikipedia: Hine was born in Nottingham in 1857 and educated at University College School and University College, London. A medical doctor, after ordination he was sent as a missionary to Likoma Island in Lake Malawi and was soon promoted to be Bishop of Likoma. 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. He resigned his archdeaconry on 30 June 1933, remaining assistant bishop until the next year. Hine is commemorated by a statue, installed in 1956, in one of the medieval tabernacles on the west front of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, where a cat plays with his robe tassel.

 

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