George de Carteret

Who was George de Carteret?

The Rt Rev George Frederick Cecil de Carteret, DD was a long serving Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1916 until 1931.

He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1889. His first posts were curacies at Canterbury, Tulse Hill, and Cheltenham. Later he held incumbencies at St Paul’s, Southwark and Christ Church, East Greenwich. In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before promotion to be its Diocesan three years later. He died in Canterbury on 3 January 1932.