Background
GIBSON, Alan George Sumner was born in 1856. Youngest son of Reverend William Gibson, Rector of Fawley, and Louisanna, daughter of Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester.
GIBSON, Alan George Sumner was born in 1856. Youngest son of Reverend William Gibson, Rector of Fawley, and Louisanna, daughter of Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester.
Studied at private school (Kineton), 1866-1867. Haileybury College 1867-*75. Oxford, 1875-1879. Scholar of Haileybury College, 1869.
Exhibitioner of Haileybury College, 1875.
Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1875. 1st class Class. Moderations (Oxford) 1876.
1st class Classics 1879. Proximo (next) Acc. Junior university of Guelph.T. Prize, 1880.
Senior university of Guelph.T. Prize, 1881.
Master of Arts 1882. Doctor of Divinity.
Deacon, 1879; Priest, 18S1. Vice-Principal Burgh Mississippi (United States) College 1879-1880. Curate of Croft, Lincolnshire, 1879-1882.
Incumbent of Pro-Cathedral, Umtata, 1882-1883.
Missionary at Ncolosi, 1884. Canon of Umtata, 1885.
Archdeacon of Kokstad, 1886. Diocese Secretary 1893.
Rector of Claremont, Cape Colony, 1894.
Coadjutor - Bishop of Cape Town, 1894-1906. Canon of Saint George’s, Cape Town, 1895-1906. PublicatioTis: Intloko Zentshumayelo (Kaffir Sermon Sketches), 1890.
Eight Years in Kaffraria, 1891.
Some Thoughts on Missionary Work and Life, 1894. Sermon Sketches for a Year, 1898.
Between Cape Town and Loanda, 1905. Joint-author of Translations from the Organon of Aristotle, 1877.
Edited Reminiscences of the Pondomisi War of 1880 (2nd educated, 1900).
Sketches of Church Work and Life in the Diocese of Cape Town (1900).