Christopher Lipscomb

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

Lipscomb was the son of William Lipscomb, rector of Welbury, and the brother of Francis Lipscomb,[5] who died from a dog bite.[6] Lipscomb was baptised on 20 November 1781 in Staindrop, County Durham.[7] He was educated at New College, Oxford, where he took his MA on 28 June 1811 and was elected a fellow.[8] Lipscombe was ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on 2 October 1818 [9] and remained there until his elevation to the Episcopate. Lipscombe was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on 24 July 1824,[10] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford.[11]

Christopher Lipscomb

The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on 24 July 1824.[12] His initial salary was four thousand pounds per annum. The bishop arrived on Jamaica on 11 February 1825 and was enthroned as bishop on 15 February.[13] Lipscombe 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]

Works

  • Christopher Lipscomb A Sermon [on Matt. x. 16] preached in the Parish Church of Chippenham, at the Triennial Visitation holden by the Bishop of Sarum (Chippenham, s.n., 1820).
  • Christopher Lipscomb A Sermon, preached in the parish church of Sutton-Benger, on Sunday, March the 18th, 1821, being the day after the execution of Edward Buckland, for the murder of Judith Pearce. (Chippenham: J. M. Coombs, 1821).
  • Christopher Lipscomb A charge delivered to the candidates for Holy Orders: at the Cathedral Church, in Spanish-Town, Jamaica, on Saturday, the 9th of April, 1825, being the day before the primary ordination in that diocese. (St. Jago de la Vega: Jamaica District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1825).
  • Christopher Lipscomb Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of St. Michael-Le-Belfry, York (London: J., G., F. & J. Rivington, 1840). (The correct spelling of the parish name is St Michael le Belfrey, York)

References

  1. ↑ Some sources Lipscombe
  2. ↑ Anglican History
  3. ↑ Belize Anglican
  4. ↑ The Times, Monday, Nov 29, 1824; pg. 2; Issue 12510; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  5. ↑ Sylvanus Urban (ed.) The Gentleman's Magazine Volume XX New Series July–December (London: William Pickering, John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843) page 201-202
  6. ↑ Harry Curteis Lipscombe History of Staindrop Church and Monuments (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1888) p. 93
  7. ↑ Gordon Goodwin, ‘Lipscomb, William (1754–1842)’, rev. Rebecca Mills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 11 Nov 2013
  8. ↑ Gentleman's Magazine 1843 page 202
  9. ↑ The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany: A New Series of the Scots Magazine July - December 1818 p. 381.
  10. ↑ J.B. Ellis The Diocese of Jamaica: A Short Account of its History, Growth, and Organisation (London: SPCK, 1913), page 60.
  11. ↑ 'The Gentleman's Magazine Volume 94, Part 1, page 367 (1824)
  12. ↑ Laws of Jamaica Passed in the Year 1875 (Kingston: Robert Osborn, 1875) page 115
  13. ↑ Thomas Farrar 'The Church of England in Jamaica' West Indian Quarterly 1885-86 (Demerara: Guyana: J. Thomson p. 99
  14. ↑ Gentleman's Magazine' 1843 p. 202
  15. ↑ Anglican Diocese of Jamaica Archived October 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ Edmund Burke (ed.) Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1860, Volume 112 (London: J. and F.H. Rivington, 1861) page 456
Church of England titles
New title Bishop of Jamaica
1824–1842		 Succeeded by
Aubrey Spencer
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