Charles Branch

Charles James Branch (7 October 1834 – 31 August 1896) was an Anglican priest:[1] most notably Bishop of Antigua from 1885 until his death.

He was born in Barbados on 7 October 1834[2] and educated at Codrington College there. He was appointed curate of St. Simon's, Barbados, in 1857; rector of St. Andrew's, Grenada, in 1864; rector of St John's, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands in 1866; and Archdeacon of Antigua, in 1879. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Antigua, in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, on 25 July 1882[3] by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury.[4] He automatically succeeded to the diocesan See of Antigua on Walrond Jackson's death, 25 November 1895; but died himself within the year[5] — at St Kitts on 31 August 1896.[2]

His son, Samuel Edward, was also Archdeacon of the island.[6]

References
  1. The Times, Wednesday, Jul 26, 1882; pg. 12; Issue 30569; col F
  2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tYl-aMr0l_QC&pg=PA159
  3.  Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Branch, Charles James" . Men of the Time  (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 162.
  4. "Church News (col. 3)". Church Times (#1018). 28 July 1882. p. 516. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 26 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  5. "Antigua (col. 4)". Church Times (#1761). 23 October 1896. p. 427. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 26 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  6. ‘BRANCH, Samuel Edmund’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 21 Oct 2017


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