Reginald Victor Bazire (30 January 1900 – 20 October 1990) was an Anglican

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...

: the Archdeacon of Southwark from 1967 to 1973; and of

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from 1973 to 1975. Bazire was educated at

Christ's Hospital Christ's Hospital is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and received its first royal charter in 1553. ...

. and in 1922 Bazire went to China as a

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. After suffering at the hands of terrorists, when Japan invaded China he was interned in the Chefoo Camp, with his wife Eileen (born 9 January 1902, an artist and a musician with the Chefoo School group in the camp), and children (Theodore, born 30 August 1928, and Peter, born 2 November 1930). Others have commented on Bazire's presence in the camp. Returning to Britain, he served as

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...

of St Barnabas,

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from 1949 to 1967; and

Rural Dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective ...

of Battersea, 1953–66. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: , ,

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1900 births People educated at Christ's Hospital Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Archdeacons of Southwark Archdeacons of Wandsworth 1990 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub