5th child of Robert and Margaret [Kelly] Dunlop. He was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland.

George was educated at the Royal College of Dungannon and the Queen's College at Galway where
he graduated in 1852 [he ranked second among eight students who won classical scholarships]. Upon graduation, he came to the United States and
taught for two years in the academy at St. Joseph, Missouri. In December, 1854, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Hawks of the Diocese of Missouri and for two years served in that capacity at Trinity Church in St. Charles. In 1856 he was ordained Priest,again by Bishop Hawks, and went to Lexington, Missouri, where he
remained for seven years.

On July 23, 1857, he married Miss Mary Wickham Cobb [1836-1919]. He became Temporary Rector of
Grace Church, Kirkwood, on September 25, 1864,and on May 23rd the following year, permanent rector. He held that position until 1880 when the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church elected him to fill the vacant episcopate of Missionary Bishop of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico.This was brought about by
Bishop Robertson of Missouri who, on the way to the convention that year happened to mention that Mr Dunlop should by rights be a missionary bishop and then proceeded to recommend him to the
convention. By doing so he deprived himself and his diocese of the services
of one of the ablest
ministers but
he also helped to establish the church on a firm foundation in the vast and wild
southwest territory.

On July 5, 1863, he acted as Chaplain to the a
Fourth of July procession and on the following day--a Sunday--he preached
in the Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe and administered Holy Communion for the first time in New Mexico to
five persons besided the clergy.

For the next several years various clergymen held services whever they could and in 1874 the General Convention of the Church created the
Missionary District of New Mexico an Arizona. In
the six years that followed a number of Bishops
were appointed, none of whom remained long because of the danger, difficulties and arduous
work.

Mr. Dunlop assumed the duties of Missionary Bishop on March 21, 1881. Nothing seemed to
daunt him, no distance too far to travel, no
difficulties to great to overcome, no weather too
severe to stop him. He traveled all over New Mexico and Arizona in carts, on horseback, and on foot in all kinds of Weather, summer and winter, in the face of Indians, a great financial
depression and practically no church facilities or property. Yet when he died several years later
in 1888 a beautiful stone church had been built in Santa Fe, one in Albuquerque, an adobe church and rectory in Tombstone, St. Paul's Church and
Rectory in Las Vegas, and building lots had been
acquired in Tucson, Raton and other places.

When death came to him, of pneumonia, on March 12, 1888, exhaustion was a contributory cause. A
man of tremendous energy and capacity for work,
he
was in the truest sense a missionary bishop, never content to settle in one place for long, eger always to be on the move, getting a church started in one locality, then moving on to another. At the time of his election as bishop, he had outgrown Missouri. It took the great Southwest to furnish space for him to work out his aims and ambition.

Mourned by all who knew him, he was buried in St. Paul's Church in Las Vegas [under the alter].
The magnificent alter there, of white Italian
marble, with columns of polished Mexican onyx, was given is his memory of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Diocese of Missouri.

After is death, Rev John Mills Kendrick [1836-1911]
became The Episcopal Bishop for the Territory of
New Mexico and Arizona.


Married Mary Wickham Cobb on 23 December 1857 in Lexington,
Missouri. They had at least seven children: [1] Margaret,
[2] Sophia, [3] Charles Denison 1864-1929 [4] Robert D, [5] Mary,
and [6] Grace.