George Ormsby

Who was George Ormsby?

George Albert Ormsby was an Anglican bishop at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.

He was born in Dublin in September 1843, the son of the Rt Hon Henry Ormsby, Chancery Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, and his wife Julia Hamilton, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1866. His first post was a curacy in Eglingham after which he held incumbencies in Jarrow, Rainton and Walworth. He was the second Bishop of British Honduras from 1893 to 1907. He returned to England and ended his career as Archdeacon of Lindisfarne. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 14 February 1924.