Name Alan Gibson | Role Bishop | |
Alan George Sumner Gibson, DD, MA was Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1894 to 1906.
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Early life
He was born into an ecclesiastical family in 1856 and was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1881. He was the younger son of the Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, who was bishop of Winchester from 1827 until 1873.
Clerical career
He was vice-principal of St Paul Burgh Missionary College then curate of Croft, Lincolnshire. He was the incumbent of Umtata Pro-Cathedral from 1882 to 1884; Missionary at Dalindyebo from 1884 to 1893; Canon of Umtata from 1885 to 1894; Archdeacon of Kokstad from 1886 to 1891; 91; Diocesan Secretary from 1892 to 1894; rector of Claremont from 1894 to 1897; and Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town from 1895 to 1906.
Works
Gibson was a prolific author; amongst others he wrote:
Gibson died on 20 October 1922.