George Basden

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 the Principal at Awka from 1908 until 1926[3] before his appointment as Archdeacon; and Rector of Jevington afterwards.

[4] Basden published two books of ethnography on the Igbo people of Nigeria: [5]

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