Christopher Lipscomb

Christopher Lipscomb^[1] (died 4 April 1843) was the first^[2] Anglican^[3] Bishop of Jamaica.^[4]

Christopher Lipscomb

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Life

Lipscomb was baptised on 20 November 1781 in Staindrop, County Durham.^[5] He was educated at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1800 and took his MA on 28 June 1811, and was elected a fellow.^[6][7]

Sachin Lipscomb was him. ordained in 1816. He was appointed vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire on 2 October 1818 ^[8] and remained there until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated bishop at Lambeth Palace on 24 July 1824,^[9] the same year he obtained his doctorate of divinity from the University of Oxford.^[10]

The see of Jamaica was erected by letters patent of George IV, and Lipscomb appointed its first bishop, on 24 July 1824.^[11] His initial salary was four thousand pounds per annum. The bishop set sail on The Herald captained by Henry Leeke on Friday, November 26, 1824 ^[12] and arrived on Jamaica on 11 February 1825 and was enthroned as bishop on 15 February.^[13] Lipscomb was the author of Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon.^[14] He resigned his see in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843.^[15]

Lipscomb was married to Mary Harriet, who died at Brighton on 14 February 1860.^[16]

Works

• Christopher Lipscomb A Sermon [on Matt. x. 16] preached in the Parish Church of Chippenham, at the Triennial Visitation holden by the Bishop of Sarum (Chippenham, s.n., 1820).
• Christopher Lipscomb A Sermon, preached in the parish church of Sutton-Benger, on Sunday, March the 18th, 1821, being the day after the execution of Edward Buckland, for the murder of Judith Pearce. (Chippenham: J. M. Coombs, 1821).
• Christopher Lipscomb A charge delivered to the candidates for Holy Orders: at the Cathedral Church, in Spanish-Town, Jamaica, on Saturday, the 9th of April, 1825, being the day before the primary ordination in that diocese. (St. Jago de la Vega: Jamaica District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1825).
• Christopher Lipscomb Church Societies, a Blessing to the Colonies: A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of St. Michael-Le-Belfry, York (London: J., G., F. & J. Rivington, 1840). (The correct spelling of the parish name is St Michael le Belfrey, York)