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 [ edit ] Basden published two books of ethnography on the Igbo people of Nigeria :
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^ 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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