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| Samuel Ajayi Crowther | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 1808 | Born (Yorubaland). | ||
| 1821 | Captured as slave durng civil wars, sold to Portuguese traders whose vessel was captured in John Henry Leeke, commander of the Myrmidon in 1822, freed at Sierre Leone. | ||
| 1825 | Educated by Church Missionary Society and baptised. | ||
| 18?? | Graduated from Fourah Bay Institute and became schoolteacher. | ||
| 1841 | 1842 | Catechist on 1841 Niger expedition. | |
| 1845 | Ordained in England. | ||
| 1846 | Misionary in Yorubaland. | ||
| 1864 | 1890 | Bishop of 'Western Equatorial Africa' beyond the Queen's Dominions. | |
| 1891 | Died. | ||
| Literature: (DNB). | |||
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