George Hand

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George Sumner Hand was a Colonial^[1] Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

He was educated at Bloxham School and St John's College, Oxford.^[2] He was Rector of St Lawrence^[3] with St Gregory, Norwich^[4] and later was Dean of St John's Cathedral, Antigua ^[5] before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of that island in 1937.^[6] He retired in 1944 and died the following year.^[7]

Notes

↑ 'Lang/1-186/156/153-63%20passim'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ The Times, Thursday, Aug 02, 1945; pg. 1; Issue 50210; col A Deaths
↑ Norfolk churches
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ Ecclesiastical News Bishops' Consecration In St. Paul's The Times Tuesday, Jun 01, 1937; pg. 22; Issue 47699; col C
↑ The Times Friday, Oct 19, 1945; pg. 1; Issue 50277; col A Memorial service for Bishop Hand

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Hutson	Bishop of Antigua 1937 – 1944	Succeeded by Nathaniel William Newnham Davis

v t e Bishops of Antigua

Daniel Davis Stephen Rigaud Walrond Jackson Charles Branch Herbert Mather Walter Farrar Edward Hutson George Hand Nathaniel Newnham Davis Donald Knowles Orland Lindsay Errol Brooks

v t e Church in the Province of the West Indies

Bishop of Barbados Anglican Diocese of Belize Diocese of Guyana Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas Bishop of North East Caribbean and Aruba Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago Diocese of the Windward Islands

Persondata
Name	Hand, George Sumner
Alternative names
Short description	Bishop of Antiqua
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1945
Place of death

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