Henry Lightbourn Sumner was born 20 October 1880 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas to Elijah Sumner, Wesleyan clergyman, and Sarah Lightbourn Sumner.
Sometime in the late 1890s, after 15-plus years in the Bahamas, the Sumners returned to England to serve there. Elijah, Sarah, and Henry appeared in the 1901 England Census as residents in Cornwall.
H L Lightbourn worked in the Civil Service in the Federated Malay States - in 1907 he was appointed Inspector of Schools in Negri Sembilan; in 1920 he was serving as Inspector of Schools in Taiping, Perak. He became a Freemason in the Perak Jubilee Lodge, and was a member of the Straits Branch of the Asiatic Society.
Henry left Malaysia in 1921/22. He returned to England and married Dorothy Louisa Pearson, adopted daughter of John and Mary Jones, in Nantwich, Cheshire, in late 1923. They moved to the Bahama Islands and their son David Roger Pearson Sumner was born there in December 1925.
Mr Sumner became Superintendent of the Bahamas General Hospital in 1927 and managed the Hospital for many years.
Henry Lightbourn Sumner died sometime after 1959.
"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL9F-LZG : 9 March 2018), Sumner, 21 Oct 1880; citing District of GreenTurtle Cay Abaco, Bahamas, reference 117; FHL microfilm 222,945.
1901 England Census for Henry J Sumner, Cornwall, Sithney, ALL, District 14.
Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 27 March 1907, page 2. Appointment of HL Sumner.
Annual report on education in the Federated Malay States for the Year 1914.
Annual report on education in the Federated Malay States for the Year 1920.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 for Henry L Sumner, 1923, Q4-Oct-Nov-Dec, S.
New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 for Henry L Sumner, Date: 1923, Sep 27, Munargo.
England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 for Henry Lightburn Sumner, United Grand Lodge of England, 1910-1921, Membership Registers: Country G, 1841-2037, to Country H, 2051-2314. Perak Jubilee Lodge, Taiping. Inspector of Schools.
"Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R34-9WSQ?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-FM9%3A216282401 : 7 October 2014), Births 1924-1925 > image 427 of 432; Registrar General, Nassau. Birth of son, David, 1925.
Florida, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1898-1963 for Henry Sumner, A3995 - Miami, Florida, 1957-1963, 1959, 144.
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