Easmon family

The Easmon family or the Easmon Medical Dynasty is a

• The Easmon family contributed to medical field following the qualification of
  Chief Medical Officer or Principal Medical Officer of a British West African territory. Albert Whiggs Easmon was a pioneering gynaecologist in Freetown
  who received a purse of £100 from the ladies of Freetown.

• African American medical doctors who completed courses at Harvard Medical School
  . Boyle wrote a pamphlet that criticised the discriminatory practices of the British colonial administration towards medical doctors.

• First World War as an officer and received the medals, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred for his service during the War. Macormack Easmon was the founder of the Sierra Leone Museum and as Chairman of the Sierra Leone Monuments and Relics Commission designated several heritage sites in Sierra Leone including Bunce Island
  long before international interest in the slave fort.

• Edna Elliott-Horton, a niece of Edward Mayfield Boyle, was reportedly the second British West African woman to attend a university when she enrolled and completed her studies at Howard University and the first West African woman to earn a liberal arts degree.

• Raymond Sarif Easmon was a prize-winning scholar at Durham University who wrote several critically acclaimed plays and novels and was a critic of successive governments in Sierra Leone, in particular the governments of Albert Margai and his successor, Siaka Stevens.

Third generation

• CBE
  for his contributions to the medical field in 2000.

• Mercedes-Benz S-300
  from a showroom in Germany.

Commemoration and recognition

Recognition

• OBE
  in 1954 for his contribution to medical services.

• Republic of Ghana
  in 1968.

• CBE
  for his contribution to medical services and education in 2000.

Commemoration

• Easmon Road in
  Accra, Ghana commemorates John Farrell Easmon
  .
• Charles Easmon Prize in Surgery in honor of Charles Odamtten Easmon is awarded to the most outstanding graduating student in surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School.
• Easmon Building, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana Medical School in memory of Charles Odamtten Easmon.
• Easmon Ward, 37 Military Hospital in honour of Charles Odamtten Easmon.

Notable members

• Albert Whiggs Easmon (1865–1923), Sierra Leonean doctor, half-brother of Dr John Farrell Easmon.
• Ghanaian surgeon and pioneer of cardiac surgery in West Africa
  .
• Charles Syrett Farrell Easmon, CBE, MD, PhD, MRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, (born 1946), British microbiologist and medical professor.
• John Farrell Easmon, MRCS, LM, LKQCP, MD, CMO, (1856–1900), prominent Sierra Leonean Creole doctor, Chief Medical Officer of the Gold Coast during the 1890s.
• Royal College of Arts
  .
• Macormack Easmon, OBE (1890–1972), physician from Accra, son of John Farrell Easmon
  .
• Raymond Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), Sierra Leonean doctor known for his literary work and political agitation.

See also

• Nova Scotian Settlers
• Sierra Leone Creole people
• Americo-Liberians
• Gold Coast Euro-Africans

References