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Robert Wellesley Cole

Died in 1995

Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole was born on 11 March 1907 in Freetown, into a well-off Creole family descended from liberated Wolof and Yoruba Africans and partly from the Caribbean; his father was an engineer in the waterworks service. A graduate of Fourah Bay College and the University of London, he studied medicine at Newcastle, where he practised, and in 1944 became the first African elected fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. President of the League of Coloured Peoples, he afterwards practised in Nottingham, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and died on 31 October 1995.

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