Colin Richard Bateman Bird (31 March 1933 – 2 June 2010) was a British Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Biography

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Bird was born on 31 March 1933. He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1958.[1] His first posts were curacies at St Mark's Cathedral, George and St Saviour's Claremont, Cape Town since 1996.[2] 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.[3] He died on 2 June 2010.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  3. ^ Church Times
  4. ^ 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