Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Charles Plumb | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane |
Term: | 1908–1930 |
Retired: | --> |
Predecessor: | George Wilkinson |
Successor: | Edward Reid |
Ordination: | 1881 |
Consecration: | 1908 |
Rank: | Bishop |
Birth Date: | 1864 |
Death Date: | 26 November 1930 |
Alma Mater: | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Charles Edward Plumb (1864–1930) was an Anglican priest in the first third of the 20th century.[1]
Plumb was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1881.[2] After curacies in West Bromwich and Witney[3] he was a Tutor at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, and then Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford.[4] During this time he was also Chaplain of his old college.[5] From 1904 to 1908 he was Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth,[6] when he ascended to the episcopate as the 4th bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.[7] He died in post on 26 November 1930.[8]