Dick Bird

For the English cricket umpire, see Dickie Bird.

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

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Biography

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]