George Thomas Basden London Gazette (31 October 1873 – 30 December 1944) was Archdeacon of the Niger from 1926 until 1936.‘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
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 1926Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p74: Oxford, OUP, 1929 before his appointment as Archdeacon; and Rector of Jevington afterwards.Sussex OPC
Photographs by G.T. Basden
Basden published two books of ethnography on the Igbo people of Nigeria:
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