George de Carteret

The Rt Rev George Frederick Cecil Carteret, DD (1886^[1]– 1932) was a long serving Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1916 until 1931. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford ^[2] and ordained in 1889.^[3] His first posts were curacies at Canterbury, Tulse Hill, and Cheltenham. Later he held incumbencies at of St Paul’s, Southwark and Christ Church, East Greenwich.^[4] In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before promotion to be its Diocesan three years later. He died in Canterbury^[5] on 3 January 1932.^[6]

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