Christopher Lipscomb

Christopher Lipscomb[1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first[2] Anglican [3] Bishop of Jamaica.[4]

Lipscomb was the son of William Lipscomb, rector of Welbury, and the brother of Francis Lipscomb,[5] who died from a dog bite.[6] Lipscomb was baptised on 20 November 1781 in Staindrop, County Durham.[7] He was educated at New College, Oxford, where he took his MA on 28 June 1811 and was elected a fellow.[8] Lipscombe was ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on October 2, 1818 [9] and remained there until his elevation to the Episcopate. Lipscombe was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on July 24, 1824,[10] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford.[11]

Christopher Lipscomb

The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on July 24, 1824.[12] His initial salary was four thousand pounds per annum. The bishop arrived on Jamaica on February 11, 1825 and was enthroned as bishop in February 15.[13] Lipscombe was the author of Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon"[14] He resigned his See in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843.[15]

Lipscomb was married to Mary Harriet, who died at Brighton on February 14, 1860.[16]

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References

  1. Some sources Lipscombe
  2. Anglican History
  3. Belize Anglican
  4. The Times, Monday, Nov 29, 1824; pg. 2; Issue 12510; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  5. Sylvanus Urban (ed.) The Gentleman's Magazine Volume XX New Series July–December (London: William Pickering, John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843) page 201-202
  6. Harry Curteis Lipscombe History of Staindrop Church and Monuments (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1888) p. 93
  7. Gordon Goodwin, ‘Lipscomb, William (1754–1842)’, rev. Rebecca Mills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 11 Nov 2013
  8. Gentleman's Magazine 1843 page 202
  9. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany: A New Series of the Scots Magazine July - December 1818 p. 381.
  10. J.B. Ellis The Diocese of Jamaica: A Short Account of its History, Growth, and Organisation (London: SPCK, 1913), page 60.
  11. 'The Gentleman's Magazine Volume 94, Part 1, page 367 (1824)
  12. Laws of Jamaica Passed in the Year 1875 (Kingston: Robert Osborn, 1875) page 115
  13. Thomas Farrar 'The Church of England in Jamaica' West Indian Quarterly 1885-86 (Demerara: Guyana: J. Thomson p. 99
  14. Gentleman's Magazine' 1843 p. 202
  15. Anglican Diocese of Jamaica
  16. Edmund Burke (ed.) Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1860, Volume 112 (London: J. and F.H. Rivington, 1861) page 456
Church of England titles
New title Bishop of Jamaica
18241842
Succeeded by
Aubrey Spencer
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