Charles Sumner (bishop)

Life

Works

Family

• Louisanna Sumner, who married the Rev. William Gibson, Rector of Fawley, Hampshire, and had eleven children including:
• *Arthur Sumner Gibson, a rugby union international, who played in the first international match in 1871
• *Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson,, Bishop of Gloucester
• *Alan George Sumner Gibson, Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1894
• Sophia Albertina Sumner, married the Rev. William Henry Ridley
• George Henry Sumner, Bishop of Guildford, whose wife Mary founded the Mothers' Union
• Emily Sarah Frances Sumner, who married Robert Newman Milford, Rector of East Knoyle, Wiltshire and canon of Salisbury Cathedral, whose children included Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, a publisher at Oxford University Press

  Attribution

• ; Endnotes:
• *A Life of Sumner was published by his son, George Henry Sumner, in 1876
• * cf. Le Neve's Fasti, i. 49, ii. 257, 317, 429, iii. 21, 81
• * Stapylton's Eton Lists, p. 42
• * Lady Granville's Letters, i. 255
• *Burke's Landed Gentry
• * Foster's Alumni Oxon.
• *Gent. Mag. 1802 ii. 1066, 1847 i. 108
• *Times, 17 and 18 Aug 1874
• * Guardian, 19 and 26 Aug 1874
• * Pennington's Recollections, pp. 149–65
• *Ashwell and Wilberforce's Bishop Wilberforce, i. 65–82, 103–4, 150, 160, 263–4, 317, 401, ii. 248, iii. 61–2
• *Lucas's Bernard Barton, pp. 108–9, 161
• * information from Mr. W. Aldis Wright