Gilbert Holme Sissons (20 March 1870 - 27 December 1940) was Archdeacon of Gibraltar from 1916 to 1929; and of Italy and the

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from 1929 to 1934.

Biography

Sisson was born in Barton, Lincolnshire in 1870, the son of William Harling Sissons, a surgeon. He attended Sir John Nelthorpe Grammar School in Brigg, and subsequently graduated from

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

, in 1892, and was made deacon in 1896, the same year in which he received his M.A. During a curacy at St Luke's, Leicester, he was ordained as a priest in December 1897. From 1902 to 1905 he was a

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, Northamptonshire. He was appointed chaplain to the English congregation in

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, Switzerland, at the end of 1904, and took up his post in April 1905. He stayed for a little over two years. During this time, his mother, Jane Thompson Sissons, who was about 65, attended Professor Kocher's clinic, presumably for a goitre operation. Through her contact with the mother of a fellow patient, Mrs Castleman, the money which was being appealed for to build the new church of St Ursula's, Berne, at Jubiläumsplatz was eventually donated. He subsequently moved to St John's, Menton, where he stayed from 1907 until 1916. He next moved to All Saints', Rome for four years, and became Rural Dean for Italy and Malta, as well as the French Riviera. In 1921 he moved to

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, in 1922 to

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, and from 1932 to his retirement in 1934 he was at Bordighera. He died on 27 December 1940.SISSONS, Ven. Gilbert Holme’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
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References

External links

St. Ursula’s Church, Berne homepage
People from Barton-upon-Humber Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe Archdeacons of Gibraltar 1870 births 1940 deaths {{Gibraltar-bio-stub