George Frederick Cecil de Carteret (1886 – 3 January 1932) was an

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cleric, and the long-serving

Bishop of Jamaica The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a diocese of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. It was originally formed as the Diocese of Jamaica, within the Church of England, in 1824. At that time the diocese included the ...

from 1916 until 1931. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1889. His first posts were curacies at Canterbury, Tulse Hill, and

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. Later he held incumbencies at St Paul's,

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and Christ Church,

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. In 1913 he was appointed

Assistant Bishop of Jamaica The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a diocese of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. It was originally formed as the Diocese of Jamaica, within the Church of England, in 1824. At that time the diocese included the ...

before unanimous election to be its diocesan bishop three years later. He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1913 by

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,Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2019) p. 4 (Accessed a
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26 June 2019) at Southwark Cathedral. He resigned the See of Jamaica effective 21 March 1931 and returned to England, where his appointment as an Assistant Bishop of Leicester was announced for 1 January 1932; but he was very ill, and (having become a

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(DD)) he died in convalescence in Canterbury on 3 January, not having been able to take up the Leicester appointment.

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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