Thomas Norman Nisbett (born on 24 October 1925) is a carpenter, cabinet maker, house builder, and Anglican priest. Born in North Village,
Pembroke, Bermuda
Pembroke Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. It is named after English aristocrat William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630).
It occupies most of the short peninsula which juts from the central north coast of Bermuda's main i ...
, he was the first black Anglican priest of the
Anglican Church of Bermuda
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Parentage and career
His parents, now deceased, were Elijah John Nisbett, born 13 October 1892 in Cedar Hill Village, St. George,
Nevis
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West Indies
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, and Adina Miller, born 14 February 1898 in Nevis, West Indies.
Elijah Nisbett left Nevis in 1922 and went to
Bermuda
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, where he stayed with friends until he could build a house on St. Monica's Road across from the St. Monica's Mission Church: Adina, and daughters Mavis and Lauret immigrated to Bermuda in 1923.
Thomas Nisbett was educated at Central School, Bermuda, and
Codrington College
Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John, Barbados now affiliated with the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. It is one of the oldest Anglican theological colleges in the Americas. It was affiliated to the Un ...
,
Barbados
In his younger years, he was a member of the popular Bermudian a cappella singing group, the Nisbett Brothers.
He has held a number of key ecclesiastical and community positions in both Barbados and Bermuda, and he was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1992 New Year Honours for services to the community.
In 2012 Nisbett was awarded the Order of Saint Mellitus by the bishop of London for his contribution to the Church in Bermuda and elsewhere.
Family relationships
Nisbett was married on 4 August 1954 to Winifred M. G. (née Smith) Nisbett (1931–2011), a primary school teacher, and former president of the Bermuda Reading Association and a past chairman of the International Reading Association Caribbean Committee,
. He became a
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of the church.
They have two sons: Thomas W. L. Nisbett, an Anglican clergyman in the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton and former businessman living in
New Brunswick, Canada
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, and Michael John Nisbett, an administrator with the
Bermuda Hospitals Board The Bermuda Hospitals Board operates the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, located in Paget Parish
Paget Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. It is named for William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert (1572–1629).
The par ...
living in Pembroke, Bermuda.
Michael John Nisbett is the owner/webmaster of Christian Resource Centre at www.crcbermuda.com.
His granddaughter is Canadian singer/songwriter, Chelsea Nisbett., also known under the professional name, Chelsea Amber.
interview with Nisbett can be seen a
References
*[http://www.anglican.bm/CTNprofile.htm Profile of the Rev. Canon Thomas Nisbett, O.B.E.]
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Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1925 births
Living people
Bermudian Anglican priests
20th-century Anglican priests
People from Pembroke Parish