About Reginald Courtenay
Lived 1813 – 1906 (aged 93). Reginald Courtenay was an anglican priest.
Reginald Courtenay DD (1813–1906) was the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1856 until 1879.
He was educated at Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford and ordained in 1841. He was Rector of Thornton Watlass from 1842 to 1853 when he became Archdeacon of Middlesex (Jamaica), a post he held until his 1856 consecration to the episcopate as coadjutor bishop (called Bishop of Kingston) of Jamaica. He automatically succeeded as diocesan Bishop of Jamaica upon Aubrey Spencer's death, 24 February 1872.
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Anglican bishop (1813-1906)
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Reginald Courtenay was born on 26 February 1813.
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Reginald Courtenay died on 13 April 1906.
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Reginald Courtenay was an anglican priest.
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