Early Life
Hinsley was the son of a miner. His mother Emma Hinsley (née Adey) was a school caretaker, and they lived in Birchills, then in the parish of Bloxwich, Walsall. Harry was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, and in 1937 won a scholarship to study history at St. John's College, Cambridge. In October 1939, while still studying at St. John's, he was summoned to an interview with Alastair Denniston, head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), and was thereby recruited to Bletchley Park's naval section in Hut 4.
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