Charles Hope Gill was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1905 to 1924.Project Canterbury
Gill was born into an ecclesiastical familyHe was the son of William Gill, sometime Rector of Hertingfordbury – "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 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 1865Ordinations. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 2 June 1885; pg. 12; Issue 31462 and began his career as a curate at St Peter's, Tynemouth. 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."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1905 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey; 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.Bishop C. Hope Gill. The Times (London, England), Monday, 1 July 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50491
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