George Frederick Cecil de Carteret (1886Roots web – 3 January 1932)Obituary Bishop De Carteret The Times Tuesday, Jan 05, 1932; pg. 7; Issue 46022; col D was an Anglican cleric, and the long-serving Bishop of Jamaica from 1916 until 1931.
He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and ordained in 1889.Ordinations. Canterbury The Times Tuesday, Dec 24, 1889; pg. 6; Issue 32890; col A 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.”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before unanimous election to be its diocesan bishop three years later. He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1913 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury,Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2019) p. 4 (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 26 June 2019) at Southwark Cathedral.
He resigned the See of Jamaica effective 21 March 1931 and returned to England, where his appointment as an Assistant Bishop of Leicester was announced for 1 January 1932; but he was very ill, and (having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD)) he died in convalescence in Canterbury on 3 January, not having been able to take up the Leicester appointment.
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