title: Alan Gibson (bishop)
text: # Alan Gibson (bishop)
  
  Alan George Sumner Gibson was Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1894 to 1906.
  
  ## Early life
  
  He was born in 1856 to William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley, and Louisanna Sumner (1817-1899), daughter of Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1881.
  
  ## Clerical career
  
  He was vice-principal of St Paul Burgh Missionary College then curate of Croft, Lincolnshire. He was the incumbent of Umtata Pro-Cathedral from 1882 to 1884; Missionary at Dalindyebo from 1884 to 1893; Canon of Umtata from 1885 to 1894; Archdeacon of Kokstad from 1886 to 1891; 91; Diocesan Secretary from 1892 to 1894; rector of Claremont from 1894 to 1897; and Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town from 1895 to 1906.
  
  ## Works
  
  Gibson was a prolific author; amongst others he wrote:
  
  * Intloko Zentshumayelo (Kaffir Sermon Sketches), 1890;
  * Eight Years in Kaffraria, 1891;
  * Some Thoughts on Missionary Work and Life, 1894;
  * Sermon Sketches for a Year, 1898;
  * Between Cape Town and Loanda, 1905;
  * Translations from the Organon of Aristotle, 1877;
  * Reminiscences of the Pondomisi War, 1900; and
  * Sketches of Church Work and Life in the Diocese of Cape Town, 1901;
  
  Gibson died on 20 October 1922.
  
  