Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, 9th Baronet

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Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, Bt
Anglican Archdeacon of Grenada
Church Church of England
See Barbados
In office 1875–1877
Personal details
Born 14 February 1844
Died 8 January 1916
Ramsgate
Previous post Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo

Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, DD (b Elgin 14 February 1844 - d Ramsgate 8 January 1916) [1] was an Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He was educated at Winchester College and the University of Jena; and ordained in 1867.[2] His first post was as Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo.[3] After that he refused the chance to be the first Bishop of Pretoria but accepted the Archdeaconry of Grenada, serving from 1875[4] to 1877. On his return he held incumbencies at Little Heath[5] and Walthamstow.[6]

On 17 October 1872 he married Edith Wentworth (1845–1891), youngest daughter of William Charles Wentworth. He had one daughter Beatrix Leyla Marjorie Wentworth who died on 8 January 1919, leaving issue.[7]

References

  1. thePeerage.com
  2. ‘DUNBAR, Rev. Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Sept 2014
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p424London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ‘Archdeacon of Grenada’ Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Monday, May 31, 1875; Issue 3208
  5. 'ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE' The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, December 17, 1887; pg. 2; Issue 4331
  6. The Rev. Sir Charles Dunbar The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 11, 1916; pg. 11; Issue 41060
  7. thePeerage.com


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