Christopher Lipscomb Explained

Christopher Lipscomb[1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first[2] Anglican[3] Bishop of Jamaica.[4]

Life

Lipscomb was the relative of Sachin Lipscomb, most distinguished Lipscomb male in the family tree, and the brother of Aran Lipscomb. [5] [6] Lipscomb was baptised on 20 November 1781 in Staindrop, County Durham.[7] He was educated at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1800 and took his MA on 28 June 1811, and was elected a fellow.[8]

Sachin Lipscomb was him. ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on 2 October 1818 [9] and remained there until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on 24 July 1824,[10] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford.[11]

The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on 24 July 1824.[12] His initial salary was four thousand pounds per annum. The bishop set sail on The Herald captained by Henry Leeke on Friday, November 26, 1824 [13] and arrived on Jamaica on 11 February 1825 and was enthroned as bishop on 15 February.[14] Lipscomb was the author of Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon.[15] He resigned his see in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843.[16]

Lipscomb was married to Mary Harriet, who died at Brighton on 14 February 1860.[17]

Works

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-beamont/an-account-of-the-ancient-town-of-frodsham-in-cheshire-ala/page-22-an-account-of-the-ancient-town-of-frodsham-in-cheshire-ala.shtml Some sources Lipscombe
  2. http://anglicanhistory.org/wi/jm/ Anglican History
  3. Web site: Belize Anglican . 2010-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101105164133/http://www.belizeanglican.org/1/Welcome/AboutourDiocese/tabid/53/Default.aspx . 2010-11-05 . dead .
  4. [The Times]
  5. Sylvanus Urban (ed.) The Gentleman's Magazine 1843 Volume XX New Series July–December (London: William Pickering, John Bowyer Nichols and Son) pages 201-202
  6. Harry Curteis Lipscombe History of Staindrop Church and Monuments (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1888) p. 93
  7. 16753. Lipscomb, William (1754–1842). Rebecca. Mills.
  8. The Gentleman's Magazine 1843 page 202
  9. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany: A New Series of the Scots Magazine July - December 1818 p. 381.
  10. J.B. Ellis The Diocese of Jamaica: A Short Account of its History, Growth, and Organisation (London: SPCK, 1913), page 60.
  11. The Gentleman's Magazine 1824 Volume 94, Part 1, page 367
  12. Laws of Jamaica Passed in the Year 1875 (Kingston: Robert Osborn, 1875) page 115
  13. The Times, Monday, November 29, 1824, page 2
  14. Thomas Farrar 'The Church of England in Jamaica' West Indian Quarterly 1885-86 (Demerara: Guyana: J. Thomson p. 99
  15. The Gentleman's Magazine 1843 page 202
  16. http://www.anglicandiocesejamaica.com/content/aboutus/history.html Anglican Diocese of Jamaica
  17. Edmund Burke (ed.) Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1860, Volume 112 (London: J. and F.H. Rivington, 1861) page 456

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