Christopher Lipscomb [1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first [2] Anglican [3] Bishop of Jamaica. [4]
Christopher Lipscomb [1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first [2] Anglican [3] Bishop of Jamaica. [4]
Lipscomb was baptised on 20 November 1781 in Staindrop, County Durham. [5] 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. [6] [7]
Sachin Lipscomb was him. ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on 2 October 1818 [8] and remained there until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on 24 July 1824, [9] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford. [10]
The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on 24 July 1824. [11] 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 [12] and arrived on Jamaica on 11 February 1825 and was enthroned as bishop on 15 February. [13] Lipscomb was the author of Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon. [14] He resigned his see in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843. [15]
Lipscomb was married to Mary Harriet, who died at Brighton on 14 February 1860. [16]