Basil Bourchier (1881-1934; WWW), first vicar of St Jude-on the Hill, Hampstead garden suburb, 1908-30; while serving in 1914 with the Red Cross in Belgium, arrested by German forces as a spy, but a sentence of death was commuted and he escaped; army chaplain, 1915-16; rector, St Anne's, Soho, 1930-34; a flamboyant preacher, he was satirized as Rev. Cyril Boom Bagshaw in A. S. M. Hutchinson, If winter comes (1921) and as a 'totally preposterous parson' in Evelyn Waugh, A little learning (1964).

Journal references: 4

• 1 Nov 1908
• 12 Jun 1910
• 30 Oct 1910
• 24 Oct 1916