Christopher Sargent Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Rev.
Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent
Birth Date:1904 6, df=yes
Birth Place:United Kingdom of GB & I
Death Cause:Malaria
Death Place:Fuzhou, Republican China
Education:St.Paul's School
St. Catherine's College
Occupation:Schoolmaster
Bishop
Nationality:British
Office:Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School
Term:1932–1938
Predecessor:Rev. William T. Featherstone
Successor:Gerald Archer Goodban

Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent (舒展; 4 June 1906 – 8 August 1943) was a schoolmaster, missionary, and bishop of the Anglican Church.

Sargent was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1906, the son of Church of England priest Douglas Harry Grose Sargent.[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, then worked as a schoolmaster teaching physics at Wellington College until 1932. At the invitation of Charles Ridley Duppuy, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, in 1932 he became the headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong. He was ordained as a deacon in 1934[2] and took up the post of assistant bishop of the Diocese of Fukien in 1938;[3] he was consecrated by Ronald Hall, Bishop of Victoria.[4] He became diocesan bishop of the same diocese, the Bishop in Fukien, in 1940. Sargent died of malaria in Fuzhou on 8 August 1943.[5]

Materials for a biography of Reverend Sargent were collected by Reverend Robert W. Howard.

Notes and References

  1. Who Was Who 1897–1990 (London, A & C Black 1991,)
  2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  3. Ecclesiastical News Assistant Bishop In Fukien DioceseThe Times Tuesday, Jun 21, 1938; pg. 21; Issue 48026; col G
  4. Book: The Practical Prophet: Bishop Ronald O. Hall of Hong Kong and His Legacies. 9789888208777. Chan-Yeung. Moira M. W.. December 2015 . 215. Hong Kong University Press .
  5. Obituary The Rt Rev C. B. R. Sargent The Times Wednesday, Aug 11, 1943; pg. 7; Issue 49621; col E