George Hand (bishop)

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

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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 was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1937 (29 June), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.^[7] He retired in 1944 and died the following year.^[8]