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Person who taught Charles Darwin Taxidermy and fuelled his curiosity on evolution
John was a freed black slave from Guyana, South America, who made his living in Edinburgh teaching University students the art of taxidermy. He lived at 37 Lothian Street in Edinburgh, just a few doors down from where Charles Darwin and his [...]
Consort of George III and Queen Victoria’s grandmother Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. The riddle [...] Septimus Severus York based 3rd century Black Roman emperor
Septimus Severus was born at Leptus Magna in AD 146. He belonged to a class of Romanised Africans and received a good education in his native province. He first adopted an official career and became a civil magistrate, later he became a military commander, [...]
The Chartist movement was the first mass political movement of the British working class. Its leader, William Cuffay, was born in 1788 in Chatham. His father, a freed slave from St. Kitts, was a cook on a warship. Cuffay, whose spine and shins [...]
Ottobah Cugoano was born in Africa in about 1757. As a child he was kidnapped and sold as a slave to plantation owners in Grenada. He remained in the West Indies until purchased by an English merchant. He was taken to England in 1772 where he was set free. Later he entered the [...]
Samuel Coleridge Taylor was born in Holborn, London, on 15th August, 1875. His father, Daniel Taylor, came to England from Sierra Leone to study medicine. After [...] Ignatius Sancho was born on a ship engaged in the slave trade in 1729. His mother died soon after arriving in the Spanish West Indies. His father committed suicide rather than be a slave. His owner brought him to England in 1731 and gave him as a present to three maiden sisters living in [...] – The Far South West of England consists of a few relatively large ‘cities’ such as Truro, Plymouth, Torbay and Exeter surrounded by sparsely populated agricultural, common, National Trust, coastal and forest lands dotted with hamlets and villages of all sizes. Gypsies have one noun for House Dwellers – gourgie or gorgio. But house [...] Born in Guinea on West Coast of Africa – Buried in Kenwyn Church, Truro Extract from Dr. Richard McGrady’s ‘An African in Cornwall’, (Musical Times, November 1986). With thanks to The Hidden Routes, An African in Cornwall, compiled by Galena Chester Time has drawn a kindly veil over many composers. But [...] England’s first slave trader who was Mayor of Plymouth Johns’ father, William Hawkins senior, was one of the five richest men in Plymouth in 1543. He was worth £150 a year (to get a sense of scale bear in mind that the towns total income in that year was £63). Another fact:- during [...] |
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