Datuk Basil Temenggong (11 October 1918 – 22 September 1984) was a Malaysian clergyman in the Anglican Church.
[1] Temenggong was born in 1918 at Pasa, an Iban longhouse a mile downriver from Betong, in what was then the Raj of Sarawak.
[7] In the latter post, he found himself ministering to allied soldiers massing at the border, waiting to fight the Japanese.
[8] In 1946 he returned to Sarawak to become headmaster of St Augustine's School, Betong until 1953.
[13][14] When Nicholas Allenby resigned as Bishop of Kuching in 1968, Temenggong was the unanimous choice to replace him.