George Sumner

Who was George Sumner?

George Henry Sumner was the Suffragan Bishop of Guildford at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

Born on 3 July 1824 into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1847. His first position was a curacy in Crawley after which he was the rector of Old Alresford and then the Archdeacon of Winchester before his ordination to the episcopate, 9 years after the death of his predecessor John Sutton Utterton.

Sumner died on 11 December 1909. His wife, Mary Sumner, was the founder of the Mothers’ Union.