Hine, John – His statue is at front of St Wulfram’s

John Hine (1857-1934)

JOHN Edward Hine was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Educated at University College School and University College, London.

A medical doctor, after ordination he was sent as a missionary to Likoma and was soon promoted to be Bishop of the area, then moved to Zanzibar and then Northern Rhodesia.

In 1916 he returned to England, firstly as Vicar of Lastingham then Suffragan Bishop of Grantham. He died on 9 April 1934.

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 assel.