Gay Mandeville Explained

Gay Lisle Griffith Mandeville (20 May 1894 – 19 July 1969) was the first native-born Bishop of Barbados from 1951 until 1960.[1]

He was educated at Harrison College and Codrington College, Barbados. After graduation, he was ordained in 1918 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St George, St Kitts followed by the post of Rector of Saba in what was then the Dutch West Indies and is now a special municipality of the Netherlands. He then returned to his home country where he was successively Vicar of St Bartholomew then St Stephen; Rector of St Philip (1943–1950), Vicar General (1948–1951) and Dean (1950–1951) and finally Bishop of Barbados.

Notes and References

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.