James Bannerman
James Bannerman (12 March 1790 – 18 March 1858) was a lieutenant and acting governor of the Gold Coast (part of modern Ghana) from 4 December 1850 to 14 October 1851.[1][2]
Life
[edit | edit source]James Bannerman was born a native of the Gold Coast in 1790 to a Fanti mother and a British father from Scotland, Colonel Henry Bannerman.[3][4] 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.[5]
He married an Ashanti princess, Yaa Hom or Yeboah, daughter of Osei Bonsu[5] who was taken prisoner at the Battle of Katamanso in 1826.[6] Together they had six children including Charles (who in 1857 founded the Accra Herald, later called the West African Herald),[7] Edmund and James Junior. Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr., was a grandson, and Charles Edward Woolhouse Bannerman a great-grandson.[5]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ https://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/16-23-106159/James_Bannerman_DAB.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Dhyana Ziegler, Molefi K. Asante, Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa, Africa World Press, 1992, p. 12.
External links
[edit | edit source]- 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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