Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar (14 February 1844 – 8 January 1916) was an Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar was born in Elgin, Moray, in Scotland. He was educated at Winchester College and the University of Jena; and ordained in 1867.‘DUNBAR, Rev. Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Sept 2014 His first post was as Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p424 London, Horace Cox, 1908 He later refused the chance to be the first Bishop of Pretoria but accepted the Archdeaconry of Grenada, serving from 1875 to 1877. On his return he held incumbencies at Little Heath and Walthamstow.
On 17 October 1872 he married Edith Wentworth, youngest daughter of William Charles Wentworth. He had one daughter, Beatrix Leyla Marjorie Wentworth, who died on 8 January 1919 in Ramsgate, leaving issue.
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