Editing John Bird Sumner (section)

==Personal life==
On 31 March 1803, Sumner married Marianne Robertson (1779-1829) in the parochial chapel of St Mary Walcot, [[Bath, Somerset]]. She was the daughter of George Robertson of Edinburgh (1742-1791), a captain in the [[Royal Navy]], and Ann ([[née]] Lewis) Robertson (1748-1802). His wife's maternal grandparents were [[Francis Lewis]], a [[New York (state)|New York]] signatory of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], and Elizabeth (née Anessley) Lewis. Sumner and wife had  at least nine children:

* Anne Sumner (1805–1833), who married John Adair Griffith Colpoys, son of Vice Admiral [[Edward Griffith Colpoys]].<ref name="Colpoys1834">{{cite book | title = Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys, K.C.B. | work  = The Annual Biography and Obituary, 1834, p. 218&ndash;223, Retrieved on 16 July 2009 | url   = https://books.google.com/books?id=1m4EAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Sir+Edward+Griffith+Colpoys%22&pg=PA218| year = 1834 }}</ref> 
* Louisa Elizabeth Sumner (1806-)
* Eliza Maria Sumner (1808–1836), mother of the cricketer [[John Gibson (cricketer, born 1833)|John Sumner Gibson]].
* Caroline Sumner (1811–1811), who died in infancy.
* Georgina Sumner (1814–1881), who married Wilson Dobie Wilson.
* Caroline Sumner (1816–1841), a twin.
* Maria Sumner (1816–1861), a twin.
* The Rev. John Henry Robertson Sumner (1821–1910), father of the footballer [[John Robert Sumner|John Robert Edwards Sumner]].
* Robert George Moncrieff Sumner (1824–1885).

Marianne Sumner died at the Manor House, Wandsworth, on 22 March 1829. Sumner died on 6 September 1862 at [[Addington Palace]], aged 82, and was buried on 12 September in the graveyard of [[St Mary's Church, Addington]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=British Newspaper Archive|date=13 September 1862|work=Norfolk News}}</ref> Two daughters and other relatives are interred at the north-east corner of the churchyard.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EG-rpv4ZMtgC&q=revd+john+thomas+++Sumner|title=John Bird Sumner: Evangelical Archbishop|last=Scotland|first=Nigel|date=1995|publisher=Gracewing Publishing|isbn=9780852442463|language=en}}</ref>

===Legacy===
A portrait of Sumner hangs in the hall of [[University College, Durham]]; another, in his convocation robes, by Eddis, is at [[Lambeth Palace]]; a replica of this is in the hall at [[King's College, Cambridge]]. A portrait by Margaret Carpenter was engraved by Samuel Cousins in 1839. A later portrait by the same artist was engraved by T. Richardson Jackson. Francis Holl executed an engraving of another portrait of him by George Richmond. A recumbent effigy by H. Weekes, R.A., funded by public subscription after Sumner's death, is in the nave of [[Canterbury Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref>

[[List of schools in the London Borough of Lambeth#Primary schools|Archbishop Sumner Church of England Primary School]] in [[London Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]] is named in his memory.