Reginald Courtenay | |
Office1: | Bishop of Jamaica |
Term1: | 1872 - 1879 |
Office2: | Archdeacon of Middlesex |
Term2: | 1853-1856 |
Education: | Hertford College, Oxford |
Father: | Thomas Courtenay |
Reginald Courtenay DD (1813–1906)[1] was the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1856 until 1879.[2]
He was educated at Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1841. He was Rector of Thornton Watlass from 1842 to 1853 when he became Archdeacon of Middlesex (Jamaica), a post he held until his 1856 consecration to the episcopate as coadjutor bishop (called Bishop of Kingston) of Jamaica.[4] He automatically succeeded as diocesan Bishop of Jamaica upon Aubrey Spencer's death, 24 February 1872.