Edgar Gibson

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The Right Reverend

Edgar Gibson
Bishop of Gloucester
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseGloucester
Personal details
Born(1848-01-23)23 January 1848
Fawley, Hampshire, England
Died8 March 1924(1924-03-08) (aged 76)
Fareham, England
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materCharterhouse
Trinity College, Oxford

Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (23 January 1848 – 8 March 1924) was the 31st

Leeds Parish Church
.

He was appointed an

Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in early January 1901.[4]

In 1905 he was elevated to the episcopate where he remained until his death 19 years later.

His obituary in The Times noted that, "[h]e was an administrator and organizer of remarkable grasp and distinction[5]".

Family

Gibson was born at Fawley, near Southampton,[6] to William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley,[6] and Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899), who had a total of 11 children:

  • Ella Sophia Gibson (1838–1928)
  • Emily Louisa Gibson (1840–1887)
  • Ada Frances Gibson (1841–1845)
  • Edith Harriet Gibson (1842–1922)
  • first international match in 1871
  • Herbert William Sumner Gibson (1846–1923), naval officer
  • Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (1848–1924)
  • Walter Sumner Gibson (1849–1918), academic reader at Oxford University Press, and uncle (by marriage) of the actor Laurence Olivier
  • Rosa Fanny Gibson (1850–1904)
  • Florence Jennie Gibson (1853–1911)
  • Cape Town

Gibson's father had previously been married to Eliza Maria Sumner (1808–1836), by whom he had two children:

  • Marianne ('May') Gibson (1832–1845)
  • John Sumner Gibson (1833–1892), priest and cricketer

Gibson's father's wives were first cousins: Eliza Maria Sumner was the daughter of

Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874), who served as Bishop of Llandaff (1826–1827) and Bishop of Winchester
(1827–1868).

Written works

References

  1. ^ The Times, Friday, Jun 02, 1905; pg. 4; Issue 37723; col D Consecration Of Bishop of Gloucester
  2. ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 578.
  4. ^ "No. 27263". The London Gazette. 4 January 1901. p. 81.
  5. ^ The Times, Monday, Mar 10, 1924; p. 18; Issue 43596; col B Bishop Gibson. Scholar And Organizer Obituary
  6. ^ a b "rev-william-gibson.co.uk – the genealogy associated with Reverend William Gibson 1804-1862". Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2011.

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