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 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] [9]
Lipscomb was ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on 2 October 1818 [10] and remained there until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on 24 July 1824, [11] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford. [12]
The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on 24 July 1824. [13] 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 [14] and arrived on Jamaica on 11 February 1825 and was enthroned as bishop on 15 February. [15] Lipscomb was the author of Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon. [16] He resigned his see in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843. [17]
Lipscomb was married to Mary Harriet, who died at Brighton on 14 February 1860. [18]
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