Dick Bird

{{Short description|British priest (1933–2010)}}

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Colin Richard Bateman Bird was an Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

He was born on 31 March 1933, educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1958.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} His first posts were curacies at St Mark's Cathedral, George and St Saviour's Claremont, Cape Town since 1996.Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} He then held incumbencies in Pretoria and Tzaneen. On his return to England he was Curate at Limpsfield then Vicar of St Catherine, Hatcham. In 1988 he became Archdeacon of Lambeth, a post he held for 11 years.[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=96257 Church Times] He died on 2 June 2010.The Daily Telegraph "Archdeacon of Lambeth who devoted himself to inter-racial reconciliation after seeing apartheid in South Africa" p 25 Issue no 48, 262 dated 2 August 2010