Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson

Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (23 January 1848, Fawley, Hampshire, England - 8 March 1924, Fareham) was the 31st Bishop of Gloucester. He was born into a clerical family. His father was a clergyman and his son Theodore Sumner Gibson was a long serving Bishop in two South African Dioceses. He was educated at Charterhouse School, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1872, his first post was as Chaplain at Wells Theological College, rising to Vice Principal in 1875. His next post was as dean (education), principal of Leeds Clergy School and he later became Rural Dean of Leeds, the area and Vicar of Leeds Parish Church.

He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in early January 1901.

In 1905 he was elevated to the Historical episcopate, 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 distinctionThe Times, Monday, Mar 10, 1924; p. 18; Issue 43596; col B Bishop Gibson. Scholar And Organizer Obituary".

Family

Gibson was born at Fawley, Hampshire, Fawley, near Southampton, to William Gibson (1804-1862), Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of Fawley,rev-william-gibson.co.uk – the genealogy associated with Reverend William Gibson 1804-1862
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*Ella Sophia Gibson (1838-1928)
*Emily Louisa Gibson (1840-1887)
*Ada Frances Gibson (1841-1845)
*Edith Harriet Gibson (1842-1922)
*Arthur Sumner Gibson (1844-1927), a rugby union international, who played in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international match in 1871
*Herbert William Sumner Gibson (1846-1923), Royal Navy, 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)
*Alan Gibson (bishop), Alan George Sumner Gibson (1856-1922), coadjutor bishop of Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, 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 Gibson (cricketer, born 1833), John Sumner Gibson (1833-1892), priest and cricketer

Gibson's father's wives were first cousins: Eliza Maria Sumner was the daughter of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (1848-1862), and Louisanna Sumner's father was Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874), who served as Bishop of Llandaff (1826-1827) and Bishop of Winchester (1827–1868).

Written works

*''Northumbrian Saints'' (1884)
*''Self-discipline'' (1894)
*''Commentary on the Book of Job'' (1898)
*''The Old Testament in The New'' (1904)

''The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England'' (1908)

References

External links

*
Bibliographic directory
from Project Canterbury
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1924 deaths
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