Charles Hope Gill was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1905 to 1924.[1]
Gill was born into an ecclesiastical family [2] on 11 February 1861 and educated at St Edmund's School in Canterbury, King William's College on the Isle of Man and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1865 [3] and began his career as a curate at St Peter's, Tynemouth.[4] Later he was a CMS Missionary at Shikarpur and then Jabalpur. From 1898 until his consecration to the episcopate he was its Secretary in India.[5]
He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1905 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey;[6] to serve as the third diocesan Bishop of Travancore & Cochin. On his return to Europe he was Vicar of Gerrard's Cross and then British Chaplain at Hyères. He died on 29 June 1946.[7]
References
- ↑ Project Canterbury
- ↑ He was the son of William Gill, sometime Rector of Hertingfordbury - "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Ordinations. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 2 June 1885; pg. 12; Issue 31462
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn){{#if:Malden Richard (ed)|, Malden Richard (ed)}. The Field Press(1920)
- ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ↑ Template:Church Times
- ↑ Bishop C. Hope Gill. The Times (London, England), Monday, 1 Jul 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50491
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