JAMAICA
See also DEPENDENCIES OF JAMAICA ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN JAMAICA 1848 - 1945 ANGLICAN CHURCH IN JAMAICA
BRITISH COLONY OF JAMAICA
In 1655 the island of Jamaica - at that moment a Spanish dependency since 1494 - was conquered by English troops and became an English Colony. It was formally ceded by Spain in 1670, by the Treaty of Madrid. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors 1847 - 1853 Sir Charles Edward Grey 1785 - 1865 1853 - 1856 Sir Henry Barkly 1815 - 1898 1856 - 1857 MajGen. Edward Wells Bell* 1857 - 1862 Capt. Charles Henry Darling 1809 - 1870 1862 - 1865 Edward John Eyre (*1863 - 1864) 1815 - 1901 1865 - 1866 LtGen. Sir Henry Knight Storks 1811 - 1874 1866 - 1874 Sir John Peter Grant 1807 - 1893 1874 W. A. G. Young* 1818 - 1878 1874 - 1877 Sir William Grey 1818 - 1878 1877 Edward Everard Rushworth* 1877 MajGen. ... Mann* 1877 - 1883 Sir Anthony Musgrave 1828 - 1888 1883 Col. Somerset M. Wiseman Clarke* 1883 MajGen. D. J. Gamble* 1883 - 1889 Gen. Sir Henry Wylie Norman 1826 - 1904 1889 Col. William Clive Justice* 1889 - 1898 Sir Henry Arthur Blake 1840 - 1918 1898 MajGen. Henry Jardine Hallowes* 1838 - 1926 1898 - 1904 Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming 1842 - 1907 1904 Sydney Haldane Olivier* 1859 - 1943 1904 Hugh Clarence Bourne* 1904 - 1907 Sir James Alexander Swettenham 1846 - 1933 1907 Hugh Clarence Bourne* (2x) 1907 - 1913 Sydney Haldane Olivier (2x) 1913 Philip Clark Cork* 1854 - 1936 1913 - 1918 Sir William Henry Manning 1863 - 1932 1918 Robert Johnstone* 1861 - 1944 1918 - 1924 Sir Leslie Probyn 1862 - 1938 1924 Col. Herbert Bryan* 1865 - 1950 1924 - 1925 Brig. Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson 1873 - 1950 1925 Sir Herbert Bryan* (2x) 1925 - 1926 A. S. Jeef* 1926 - 1932 Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs 1876 - 1947 1932 A. S. Jeef* (2x) 1932 - 1934 Sir Alexander Ransford Slater 1874 - 1940 1934 A. S. Jeef* (3x) 1934 - 1938 Sir Edward Brandis Denham 1876 - 1938 1938 Charles Campbell Woolley* 1893 - 1981 1938 - 1943 Sir Arthur Frederick Richards 1885 - 1978 1943 William Henry Flinn* 1895 - 1973 1943 - 1951 Sir John Huggins 1891 - 1971
DEPENDENCIES OF JAMAICA
Dependencies of Jamaica included : - The Cayman Islands since 1863 - The Turks and Caicos Islands since 1874 __________________________________________________________________________________DEPENDENCY OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
Like Jamaica itself, the Cayman Islands were transferred from Spanish to English rule in 1670. Until the early 18th century the islands actually were a pirate stronghold and it was only ca 1734 that the first permanent settlements could be established. The islands were selfgoverning under the supervision of Jamaica until 1863 when they formally became a direct dependency of Jamaica. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
Chief Magistrates 1842 - 1855 James Coe the Younger 1855 - 1879 William Eden 1879 - 1888 William Bodden Webster 1888 - 1898 Edmund Parsons Commissioners 1898 - 1906 Frederick Shedden Sanguinetti 1847 - 1906 1906 - 1907 Charles Henry Yorke Slader 1907 - 1913 George Stephenson Shirt Hirst 1871 - 1912 1913 - 1916 Aubrey Charles Robinson 1916 - 1919 Cecil Everard Mellish 1919 - 1929 Hugh Houston Hutchings 1869 - 1937 1929 - 1931 Geoffrey Hammond Frith 1931 - 1934 Ernest Arthur Weston 1880 - 1940 1934 - 1940 Allan Wolsey Cardinall 1887 - 1956 1940 - 1941 Albert Colinridge Panton, Sr.* 1941 - 1946 John Penry JonesDEPENDENCY OF THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
The Turks islands were settled in 1678 by English salt-collectors from Bermuda. The Caicos, which for some time had been a major pirate stronghold, were settled by British Loyalists after 1783. Both groups were annexed by Great Britain in 1799, becoming part of the Colony of the Bahamas until 1848 when they were organized as a separate colony. This situation lasted until 1874 when they became dependencies of Jamaica. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS Presidents 1848 - 1854 Frederick Henry Alexander Forth 1854 - 1862 William Robert Inglis 1823 - 1888 1862 - 1869 Alexander Wilson Moir 1869 - 1872 Alexander Augustus Melfort Campbell 1872 - 1874 Daniel Thomas Smith Commissioners 1874 - 1878 Daniel Thomas Smith s.a. 1878 Edward Noel Walker 1878 - 1883 Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1845 - 1919 1883 - 1885 Frederick Shedden Sanguinetti 1847 - 1906 1885 - 1888 Henry Moore Jackson 1888 - 1891 Alexis Wynns Harriott 1891 - 1893 Henry Huggins 1893 - 1899 Edward John Cameron 1858 - 1947 1899 - 1901 Geoffrey Peter St. Aubyn 1858 - 1901 1901 - 1905 William Douglas Young 1859 - 1943 1905 - 1914 Frederick Henry Watkins 1859 - 1928 1914 - 1923 George Whitfield Smith 1923 - 1932 Harold Ernest Phillips 1877 - 1941 1933 - 1934 Hugh Houston Hutchings 1869 - 1937 1934 - 1936 Frank Cecil Clarkson 1936 - 1940 Hugh Charles Norwood Hill 1940 - 1946 Edwin Porter Arrowsmith 1909 - 1992
ANGLICAN CHURCH IN JAMAICA
The Anglican religion was introduced on Jamaica in 1661 after the English conquest. The island was subject to the diocese of London until 1824 when a separate diocese of Jamaica - which became part of the selfgoverning province of the West Indies in 1883 - was established. (1) (1) At first the diocese also included the Bahamas and British Honduras. But later new dioceses were detached from its jurisdiction : - 1861 : the Bahamas (with the Turks and Caicos Islands) - 1891 : British Honduras __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF THE COMMUNITY
Bishops 1843 - 1872 Aubrey George Spencer 1795 - 1872 1872 - 1879 vacant In charge of the diocese 1856 - 1879 Reginald Courtenay, Bishop of Kingston and Coadjutor to the Bishop of Jamaica 1813 - 1879 - 1880 William George Tozer 1880 - 1916 Enos Nuttall, also from 1893 to 1897 Primate and from 1897 to 1916 Archbishop of the West Indies 1842 - 1916 1916 - 1931 Cecil de Carteret 1931 - 1949 William G. Hardie, also Archbishop of the West Indies 1945 - 1949
ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE WEST INDIES
In 1883 7 dioceses of the Anglican Church in the Caribbean (Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbados, British Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad (and Tobago) and the Windward Islands) - until then subordinated to the Archdiocese of Canterbury - were united into the autonomous Church province of the West Indies. In 1891 the new Diocese of British Honduras also joined the province. __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF THE PROVINCE
Primates 1883 - 1892 William Piercy Austin, Bishop of British Guyana 1... - 1892 1893 - 1897 Enos Nuttal, Bishop of Jamaica 1842 - 1916 Archbishops 1897 - 1916 Enos Nuttal, Bishop of Jamaica s.a. 1916 William Proctor Swaby, Bishop of Barbados 1844 - 1916 1917 - 1921 Edward Archibald Parry, Bishop of British Guyana 1921 - 1936 Edward Hutson, Bishop of Antigua 1936 - 1943 Edward Arthur Dunn, Bishop of British Honduras 1943 - 1945 Arthur Henry Anstey, Bishop of Trinidad 1945 - 1949 William G. Hardie, Bishop of Jamaica
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