Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole
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Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole | |
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Sierra Leone Colony | |
| Died | 31 October 1995 (aged 88) Marylebone, Sierra Leone |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British Subject |
| Education | Government Model School, Prince of Wales, Sierra Leone Grammar School, Fourah Bay College, University of Newcastle |
Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole (11 March 1907 – 31 October 1995
Background and early life
Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole was born at No. 15 Pownall Street,
The Wellesley-Coles were a Sierra Leone Creole family of partial Caribbean origin who also descended from Wolof and Yoruba Liberated African ancestors. The Okrafo-Smart family was another prominent Creole family largely of Igbo Liberated African descent.
Wilfred Cole was a successful engineer who was the first Sierra Leonean to serve as an assistant for the Public Water Works Department in Freetown. The Wellesley-Cole family was a middle-class Creole family, and Robert Wellesley-Cole grew up in a household of relative comfort and privilege.
Early education
Wellesley-Cole was educated at the Government Model School in Freetown, Sierra Leone where he was taught by teachers such as William Campbell. Following the completion of his primary education, Wellesley-Cole was enrolled as the first student of the Government Model Secondary School, currently known as Prince of Wales Secondary School. Wellesley-Cole completed his studies at Prince of Wales, proceeded to the CMS Grammar School currently known as The Sierra Leone Grammar School where he eventually became Head Prefect (HeadBoy) in his final year and passed the Cambridge Entrance Certification in 1925.
Academic career
Wellesley-Cole obtained
Medical career
Wellesley-Cole was the first West African to become a member of the
Following Sierra Leone's Independence on 27 April 1961, then Prime Minister Milton Margai offered Wellesley-Cole the position of senior medical officer.
Activism
Wellesley-Cole co-founded the Society for the Cultural Advancement of Africa, with his sister Irene in 1943.[2]
He was President of the League of Coloured Peoples from 1947 to 1949, following the death of the organisation's founder Dr Harold Moody.[3]
He was a Director of the
Family life
In 1932, Wellesley-Cole married Anna Brodie, his Scottish former landlady. The marriage was later dissolved.[5]
In 1950, he married Amy Manto Bondfield Hotobah-During, a
Publications
- Kossoh Town Boy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960)
- An Innocent in Britain, or, The Missing Link: a documented autobiography (United Kingdom: Campbell Matthews, 1988)
- Kossoh Town Boy: A Time Capsule of Pre Independence Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone: Koroma Kamanda, 2017) better source needed]
References
- ^ Green, Jeffrey (22 September 2011). "Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ "Irene Ighodaro". Young Historians Project. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Description of 'The League of Coloured Peoples [founded in 1931]., 1942 – 1950. Papers of Dr Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole". Archives Hub. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Description of 'The League of Coloured Peoples [founded in 1931]., 1942 – 1950. Papers of Dr Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole". Archives Hub. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows". Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Kossoh Town Boy: A Time Capsule of Pre Independence Sierra Leone". 27 March 2017.
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