Christopher Lipscomb

Christopher Lipscomb[1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first[2] Anglican[3] Bishop of Jamaica.

[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.

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.