George Basden
{{Short description|Archdeacon of the Niger (1873–1944)}}
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George Thomas Basden {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRGS}}[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34010/supplement/13/data.pdf 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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U222344, 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.[http://www.sussex-opc.org/index.php?c=219&t=moninsc&k=1729&l=102 Sussex OPC]
Photographs by G.T. Basden
HalfManHalfSpirit.jpg|Half man, half spirit
Igbo medicine man.jpg|Igbo medicine man
A proud trio.png|Igbo women: "A proud trio"
Basden Igbo market.jpg|Igbo market: "A busy scene"
Basden published two books of ethnography on the Igbo people of Nigeria:
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GaUSAAAAYAAJ| title=Among the Ibos of Nigeria: An Account of the Curious & Interesting Habits, Customs, & Beliefs of a Little Known African People by One who Has for Many Years Lived Amongst Them on Close & Intimate Terms| author=George Thomas Basden| publisher=J. B. Lippincott Company| year=1921}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edVLwgEACAAJ| title=Niger Ibos: A Description of the Primitives Lives, Customs and Animistic Beliefs, Etc., of the Ibo People of Nigeria| author=George Thomas Basden| publisher=Seeley, Service and Company| year=1938}}
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