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Archdeacon of the Niger (1873–1944)
George Basden (1935)
George Thomas Basden
OBE
FRGS
[1] (31 October 1873 – 30 December 1944) was
Archdeacon of the Niger from 1926 until 1936.
[2]
He was educated at the
CMS College ,
Islington and
Durham University . He was
ordained in 1901 and was at
Onitsha from 1902 until 1908. He was the
Principal at
Awka from 1908 until 1926
[3] before his appointment as
Archdeacon ; and
Rector of
Jevington afterwards.
[4]
Photographs by G.T. Basden
Basden published two books of
ethnography on the
Igbo people of
Nigeria :
[5]
References
^
London Gazette
^ ‘BASDEN, Rev. George Thomas’, Who Was Who , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
accessed 19 Jan 2016
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p74:
Oxford ,
OUP , 1929
^
Sussex OPC
^ Bastian, Misty L (2005). "The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern Nigeria". In Masquelier, Adeline (ed.).
Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
978-0-253-21783-7 .
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