George Frederick Cecil de Carteret (1886 – 3 January 1932) was an Anglican cleric, and the long-serving

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from 1916 until 1931. He was educated at

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and

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in 1889. His first posts were

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, and Cheltenham. Later he held incumbencies at St Paul's, Southwark and Christ Church,

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. In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before unanimous election to be its diocesan bishop three years later. He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1913 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury,Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2019) p. 4 (Accessed a
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. He resigned the See of Jamaica effective 21 March 1931 and returned to England, where his appointment as an

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was announced for 1 January 1932; but he was very ill, and (having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD)) he died in convalescence in

on 3 January, not having been able to take up the Leicester appointment.

References

1886 births Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican bishops of Jamaica

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1932 deaths {{Christian-clergy-stub