Alan Gibson (bishop)
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Alan George Sumner Gibson, DD, MA was Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1894[1] to 1906.
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Early life
He was born into an ecclesiastical family in 1856 and was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1881.[2] He was the younger son of the Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, who was bishop of Winchester from 1827 until 1873.[3]
Clerical career
He was vice-principal of St Paul Burgh Missionary College[4] then curate of Croft, Lincolnshire. He was the incumbent of Umtata Pro-Cathedral from 1882 to 1884; Missionary at Dalindyebo from 1884 to 1893; Canon of Umtata from 1885 to 1894; Archdeacon of Kokstad from 1886 to 1891; 91; Diocesan Secretary from 1892 to 1894; rector of Claremont from 1894 to 1897; and Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town from 1895 to 1906.[5]
Works
Gibson was a prolific author; amongst others he wrote:[6]
- Intloko Zentshumayelo (Kaffir Sermon Sketches), 1890;
- Eight Years in Kaffraria, 1891;
- Some Thoughts on Missionary Work and Life, 1894;
- Sermon Sketches for a Year, 1898;
- Between Cape Town and Loanda, 1905;
- Translations from the Organon of Aristotle, 1877;
- Reminiscences of the Pondomisi War, 1900; and
- Sketches of Church Work and Life in the Diocese of Cape Town, 1901;
Gibson died on 20 October 1922.[7][8]
References
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- ↑ ‘GIBSON, Rt. Rev. Alan George Sumner’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Jan 2014
- ↑ Burgh Le Marsh
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p546: London, Horace Cox, 1908
- ↑ British Library web site accessed 12:48 GMT Sunday 19 January 2014
- ↑ Bishop Alan Gibson The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Oct 25, 1922; pg. 14; Issue 43171
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