Edith Mary Hinchley

Edith Mary Hinchley (née Mason (1870 – 16 October 1940) was a British painter, suffragist, and humanist.

Edith Mary Mason was born in 1870 in the Chelsea area of London where her father was a florist and nurseryman and her mother and sisters ran a shop.

[4] In 1903, she married chemical engineer John William Hinchley who she had met at the Royal College of Art in London.

[7] In 1923, Hinchley was commissioned to paint a miniature of Princess Helene Victoria which was to be hung in the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House.

Her house on Redcliffe Road, off Fulham Rd in Chelsea, was completely destroyed by a bomb during The Blitz; her body and that of her two lodgers were not found until five days later, when notices were run to establish who may be beneficiaries of her estate.

[12] She is remembered on a wall plaque at Golder’s Green Crematorium, erected by Imperial College and Edith following her husband’s death.