Gay Mandeville

The Rt Rev Gay Lisle Griffith Mandeville was the first native-born Bishop of Barbados from 1951 until 1960.[1] He was born on 20 May 1894 and educated at Harrison College and Codrington College, Barbados.[2] After graduation he was ordained in 1918 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St George, St Kitts followed by the post of Rector of Saba in what was then the Dutch West Indies and is now Netherlands Antilles. He then returned to his home country where he was successively Vicar of St Bartholomew then St Stephen; Rector of St Philip; Vicar General then Dean and finally Bishop of Barbados.

Notes and references

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
William James Hughes
Bishop of Barbados
1951–1960
Succeeded by
Edward Lewis Evans