Edgar Gibson
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The Right Reverend Edgar Gibson |
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| Bishop of Gloucester | |
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| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Diocese | Diocese of Gloucester |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson |
| Born | 23 January 1848 Fawley, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 8 March 1924 (aged 76) Fareham, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Alma mater |
Charterhouse Trinity College, Oxford |
Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (23 January 1848, Fawley, Hampshire, England - 8 March 1924, Fareham) was the 31st Bishop of Gloucester. He was born into a clerical family and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford.Ordained in 1872, his first post was as Chaplain at Wells Theological College, rising to Vice Principal in 1875. His next post was as principal of Leeds Clergy School and he later became Rural Dean of the area and Vicar of Leeds Parish Church.
He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in early January 1901.
In 1905 he was elevated to the episcopate where he remained until his death 19 years later.
His obituary in The Times noted that, "[h]e was an administrator and organizer of remarkable grasp and distinction".
Gibson was born at Fawley, near Southampton. He was the son of William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley, and his second wife Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899). Louisanna was the eldest daughter of Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874; Bishop of Llandaff, 1826–1827; Bishop of Winchester, 1827–1868) and Jennie Fanny Barnabine [Maunoir] (1794–1849). She was therefore the niece of Charles' elder brother John Bird Sumner who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848–62. Arthur's father William, had married Arthur's mother in 1837, the year after the death of his first wife Eliza Maria, (1808–1836). Louisanna was in fact the first cousin of William's first wife with Eliza having been the third daughter of John Bird Sumner.
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