Percival Gibson

The Rt Rev Percival William , CBE^[1] (26 August 1893^[2] – 3 April 1970) was the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1955^[3] until 1967.^[4]

He was educated at College, Jamaica^[5] and London University ^[6] and ordained in 1918. His first posts were curacies at Golden Grove, Jamaica and St George’s, Kingston.^[7] Later he was Headmaster of Kingston College, Jamaica^[8] before elevation to the Episcopate as Suffragan Bishop of Kingston in 1947.^[9] After eight years he was promoted to be its Diocesan and served until 1967.

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Preceded by Basil Montague Dale	Bishop of Jamaica 1955 – 1967	Succeeded by John Cyril Emerson Swaby

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v t e Bishops of Jamaica Christopher Lipscomb Aubrey Spencer Reginald Courtenay William Tozer Enos Nuttall George de Carteret William Hardie Basil Dale Percival Gibson Cyril Swaby Herbert Edmondson Neville De Souza Alfred Reid

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

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Name	Gibson, Percival William
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Date of birth	26 August 1893
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Date of death	3 April 1970
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