William Inskip

William John Inskip (1852 – May 1899) was an English trade unionist.

Inskip grew up in Leicester, where he worked as a in the bootmaking trade. He became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), of which he was elected treasurer in 1880, then general secretary in 1886.

In 1891, Inskip was elected to Leicester Town Council as a Liberal-Labour representative,

Inskip was also active in the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on its Parliamentary Committee, and also as its treasurer. In 1898, he travelled to the United States as part of a TUC delegation, but on his return, he contracted tuberculosis, and he died in 1899, aged 47.