Janus: Principals of Fourah Bay College

RCS contains:
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Y30446M	Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection
Y30447A	Views of Bathhurst, The Gambia
Y30447B	Views in The Gambia. 1945-51
Y30447D	Spicer Simson photographs of the Gambia River Survey 1911-1912
Y30448A	Panorama of Accra, circa 1910
Y30448B	Accra Post Office. circa 1915
Y30448C	Garden party at Old Government House, Cape Coast, March 10th 1916
Y30448D	Sir Alan Burns Collection of Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] photographs, 1940s
Y30448E	Portrait of Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, circa 1920
Y30448F	Inauguration of the University of Ghana 25th November 1961
Y30448G	Achimota and Accra photographs (Frank Joselin Collection)
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Principals of Fourah Bay College

Title	Principals of Fourah Bay College
Reference	GBR/0115/Y30446I
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	-circa 1985
Extent and Medium	6 images
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A collection of photographs of members of staff of the college. 1-5 are modern copies of old photographs of various sizes, in mounts, 100 x 150 mm.

Presented in 1985 by Dr Davidson Nicol.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Principals of Fourah Bay College, Y30446I

Further information

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Index Terms

Africa

Sierra Leone

RCS/Y30446I contains:

Rev. Edward Jones, M.A. Principal 1840-1858. Jones was born in the United States, but came to Sierra Leone as a schoolmaster in 1831, and was naturalised in 1845. He edited the Sierra Leone Weekly Times. As Principal of Fourah Bay he instituted the erection of school buildings, but his regime closed in controversy and the college was closed. He died in England a few years later.

-circa 1985

Rev. Henry Jones Alcock, M.A. Principal 1866-1870. Alcock obtained his degree at Dublin. He gave priority to the training of missionaries and was a meticulous teacher. He resigned in 1870.

-circa 1985

Rev. Metcalfe Sunter, M.A. Principal 1870-1882. Metcalfe Sunter came to Sierra Leone as a deacon in 1870; his work for the College included arranging its affiliation to the University of Durham in 1875. He was appointed H.M. Inspector of Schools for West Africa in 1882, a post he held until his death in Lagos in 1892.

-circa 1985

Rev. Frank Nevill, M.A. Principal 1884-1889. Frank Nevill (1855-1889) was ordained in 1879 and was Curate of Emmanuel Church, Maida Hill from then until, in 1884 he was appointed Principal of Fourah Bay College. He died in Sierra Leone on 2 November 1889, of malarial fever. He built up the college from the very low ebb it had reached owing to the length of time between the departure of Sunter and his arrival.

-circa 1985

Rev. William T. Balmer, M.A., B.D. Vice-Principal 1918. Principal of Richmond College in West Africa 1902 (in Sierra Leone and subsequently the Gold Coast), Principal, Freetown High School. The first Vice-Principal of Fourah Bay appointed under an agreement with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.

-circa 1985

Davidson Nicol, C.M.G., M.A., M.D., Ph.D. Principal 1960-68. Photograph 130 x 90 mm taken in 1966 by a student; showing Dr Nicol at his desk, with portraits of his fourteen predecessors behind him. Those depicted are:. 1840-1858 Rev. Edward Jones, M.A. 1866-1870 Rev. Henry Jones Alcock, M.A. 1870-1882 Rev. Metcalfe Sunter, M.A. 1885-1889 Rev. Frank Nevill, M.A. 1890-1898 Rev. W.J. Humphrey, M.A. 1899-1902 Rev. E.H. Elwin, D.D. (later Bishop of Sierra Leone). 1902-1905 Rev. T. Rowan, M.A., B.D. 1911-1921 & 1925-1926 Rev. J. Denton, M.B.E., M.A., D.C.L. 1921-1923 Rev. F.B. Heiser, M.A. 1926-1936 Rev. J.L.C. Horstead, M.A. (later Bishop of Sierra Leone, Archbishop of West Africa). 1937-1946 Rev. E.A.H. Roberts, M.A. 1947-1952 Rev. F.H. Hilliard, B.D., Ph.D. 1952-1955 F.R. Dain, M.A., Dip.Ed. 1955-1960 J.J. Grant, M.A., Ed.B. Dr Nicol was first Vice-Chancellor, University of Sierra Leone 1966-68; As Sierra Leone Ambassador to the U.N. 1969-71, Sierra Leone High Commissioner in London 1971-72, Executive Director, UNITAR, 1972-1983.

1966