James Bannerman
James Bannerman (12 March 1790 – 18 March 1858) was a lieutenant and acting governor of the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) from 4 December 1850 to 14 October 1851.
Life[]
James Bannerman was born a native of the Gold Coast in 1790 to a Fanti mother and a British father from Scotland. Bannerman was educated in the Gold Coast and in Europe. Returning to the Gold Coast as a merchant, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and was Civil Commandant of Christiansborg, Accra, from 1850 to 1857. He succeeded Governor William Winniett, who had died, as Lieutenant-Governor of the colony, and helped to introduce the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast.[1]
He married an Ashanti princess, Yaa Hom or Yeboah, daughter of Osei Bonsu,[1] who was taken prisoner at the in 1826. Together they had six children including Charles (who in 1857 founded the , later called the ),[2] Edmund and James Junior. Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr., was a grandson, and a great-grandson.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Michael R. Doortmont, The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony, Brill, 2005, p. 118.
- ^ Dhyana Ziegler, Molefi K. Asante, Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa, Africa World Press, 1992, p. 12.
External links[]
- James Bannerman – Books.google.com
- Thunder – Books.google.com.
- Mulatto Gold Coast – Books.google.com.
- Black experience and the empire – Books.google.com.
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