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.