{{Short description|Anglican Bishop of Jamaica (1893-1970)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | honorific_prefix = Right Reverend | name = Percival William Gibson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GB|CBE}} | title = Bishop of Jamaica | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = Church of England | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Jamaica | see = | elected = <!-- or | appointed = --> | term = 1955{{spaced endash}}1967<!-- or term_start / term_end --> | quashed = <!-- or | retired = --> | predecessor = Basil Montague Dale | successor = John Cyril Emerson Swaby | opposed = | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1918 | ordained_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank = | laicized = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|09|15|df=y}}<!-- {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | baptised = <!-- will not display if birth_date is entered --> | birth_place = <!-- City, administrative region, country (per Template:Infobox person) --> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|04|03|1893|09|15|df=y}} <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- as birth_place --> | buried = <!-- or | tomb = --> | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = Jamaican | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = <!-- or | previous_post = --> | education = St. George's College, Jamaica | alma_mater = London University | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Sainthood ----------> | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = <!---------- Other ----------> | module = | module2 = | other = }} '''Percival William Gibson''' {{post-nominals|country=GB|CBE}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/42051/supplements/3995/page.pdf |title=London Gazette |access-date=2009-06-07 |archive-date=2011-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611230539/http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/42051/supplements/3995/page.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> (15 September 1893<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/01872495/chapter4.pdf |title=Four indigenous leaders |access-date=2009-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927000605/http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/01872495/chapter4.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> – 3 April 1970) was the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1955<ref>[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='Fisher/1-271/165-182/174/229-33') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> until 1967.<ref>''Bishop Of Jamaica To Retire'' The Times Monday, Jan 23, 1967; pg. 12; Issue 56846; col G</ref>
He was educated at St. George's College<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stgcfl.com/HOF/hof.html |title=Hall of Fame |publisher=St. George's College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703072730/http://www.stgcfl.com/HOF/hof.html |archive-date=2009-07-03 }}</ref> and London University<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> and ordained in 1918. His first posts were curacies at Golden Grove, Jamaica and St George's, Kingston.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref> Later he was headmaster of Kingston College, Jamaica<ref>[http://www.dioceseny.org/pages/27-bishop-taylor Testimony of former pupil] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527215141/http://www.dioceseny.org/pages/27-bishop-taylor |date=2014-05-27 }}</ref> before elevation to the episcopate as suffragan bishop of Kingston in 1947.<ref>[http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030212/news/news8.html Jamaica Gleaner] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614021353/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030212/news/news8.html |date=2009-06-14 }}</ref> After eight years he was promoted to be its diocesan and served until 1967. He founded the Glenmuir High School and opened the doors to the school on 15 September 1958 to 55 boys and girls.<ref>glenmuirhighschoolstudenthandbook</ref> {{stack|{{Portal|Christianity|Jamaica}}}}
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