[Updated 19/Mar/2026]
The Rev Philip Hinkey was an American missionary in the early 20th century with the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
He trained for the ministry and began with the CMA in 1897, aged 24.
He is mentioned in the Directory of Protestant Missions in China of 1906, serving under Dr. Robert Alexander Jaffray on the staff of the Wuzhou/ Wuchow Bible School in Kwangsi/ Guangxi Province, which was started by Dr Robert Glover in 1899.
Wuchow was the CMA Headquarters and receiving home for South China, with a Training School for Chinese men and women, Middle Schools for boys and girls, a Kindergarten School, and the South China Alliance Press, publishing magazines in Chinese and English, and a large variety of Gospel books and tracts in Chinese.
In the Christian and Missionary Alliance Prayer Directory of 1924, we have Rev Hinkey, now married, with his wife still serving in Wuchow. She joined the CMA in 1904.
In 1927, he helped Jaffray organize a Chinese Revival Bible Study Conference in Canton, capital city of Kwantung (Guangdong) Province, which would continue throughout the 20th century to the present, except during the Japanese occupation (1941-1945).
In the 1938 list of Europeans who owned property on Cheung Chau, there is a Mr P Hinkey named as owner of House #28. Due to his connection with Rev Dr Jaffray, I'm thinking this may well have been the Philip Hinkey described above.
In 1950, when the Wuzhou Bible School moved to House 22 on Cheung Chau, they named the house the Zhai Fumin Memorial Hall after Robert Jaffray. Two small houses were built nearby for male students. One of these was named after Philip Hinkey to commemorate his many years of service to the CMA.
Sources:
Christian and Missionary Alliance Prayer Directory
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Came across two supports,…
Came across two supports, on 1936 sources :
P. Hinkey was addressed as Rev. and (No. 28) cited, while all other persons named in the paragraph are missionaries, with no exception. (Cheung Chau Notes, 1936-1-28 p.9)
Home Again
Shortly after Mae returned to Liuchow she prepared to return
home for her second furlough. "On May 8, Miss Tonkin, along
with Rev. and Mrs. Philip Hinkey, arrived in New York City. ..." (source)
Rev. Hinkey was the colleague of Rev. Oldfield (at Wuchow, Kwangsi) and Ms. Tonkin in neighbouring city Liuhow, as the Directory of Protestant Missions 1936.
The people, places and time in context are self-evident, I think.
In 1927, Rev. and Mrs. Hinkey might have left by early April, during the Wuchow evacuation of foreigners. They stayed in Hong Kong few months; missionaries returned to Kwangsi by Sept.
Their last furlough was in 1936. Mr. Hinkey's health had forced them to leave their service field in China in 1936.
Rev. Hinkey was born in Ohio in 1873, he passed away in April 1939 in the US.
sources
China Mail; Hong Kong Telegraph
Aunt Mae's China, p.254
Alliance Witness