Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, 9th Baronet

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


Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, Bt
Anglican Archdeacon of Grenada
ChurchChurch of England
SeeBarbados
In office1875–1877
Personal details
Born14 February 1844
Died8 January 1916
Ramsgate
Previous post(s)Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo

He was educated at Winchester College and the University of Jena; and ordained in 1867.[1] His first post was as Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo.[2] After that he refused the chance to be the first Bishop of Pretoria but accepted the Archdeaconry of Grenada, serving from 1875[3] to 1877. On his return he held incumbencies at Little Heath[4] and Walthamstow.[5]

On 17 October 1872 he married Edith Wentworth, youngest daughter of William Charles Wentworth. He had one daughter Beatrix Leyla Marjorie Wentworth who died on 8 January 1919, leaving issue.

References edit

  1. ^ ‘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
  2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p424London, Horace Cox, 1908
  3. ^ ‘Archdeacon of Grenada’ Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Monday, May 31, 1875; Issue 3208
  4. ^ 'ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE' The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, December 17, 1887; pg. 2; Issue 4331
  5. ^ The Rev. Sir Charles Dunbar The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 11, 1916; pg. 11; Issue 41060
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Preceded by
Archibald Hamilton Dunbar
Baronet
(of Northfield)
1910–1916
Succeeded by
Archibald Edward Dunbar