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	Samuel Adjai Crowther - LoveToKnow 1911
		SAMUEL ADJAI CROWTHER (1809?-1891), African missionary-bishop, was born at Ochugu in the Yoruba country, 1 The duchy of Lancaster, which was the private property of Henry IV.
		In 1888 the tide of persecution turned, and several chiefs embraced Christianity, and on Crowther's return from another visit to England, the large iron church known as "St Stephen's cathedral" was opened.
		Crowther died of paralysis on the 31st of December 1891, having displayed as a missionary for many years untiring industry, great practical wisdom, and deep piety.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Samuel_Adjai_Crowther (330 words)

	Set all free - Act to end slavery
		Samuel Adjai Crowther was born in Yorubaland, Nigeria to an artisan family.
		Adjai was determined to become a teacher and priest and on leaving the college he became a school teacher at Regent Village School.
		Adjai was thirty-two years old at that time and although he was a teacher and Christian worker, he was not yet a priest.
	www.setallfree.net /samuel_crowther.html (1531 words)

	Bishop S. Crowther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Adjai, his mother and sister were captured together with many others, and whether his father and other relatives were killed or captured they never knew.
		Adjai with a group of other boys about his age were parted from their mothers and sisters and exchanged for goods, animals, and in some cases for tobacco.
		The Queen′s licence was issued empowering the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate Samuel Adjai Crowther to be a bishop of the Church of England in West Africa.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/crowther,sBISHOP.htm (907 words)

	Glimpses #152: Samuel Adjai Crowther; Christian History Institute
		Crowther twice recorded his memories of the event, vividly recalling the desolation of burning houses, the horror of capture and roping by the neck, the slaughter of those unfit to travel, the distress of being torn from relatives.
		Crowther was the outstanding representative of a whole body of West African church leaders who came to the fore in the pre-Imperial age and were superseded in the Imperial.
		The legacy of Samuel (Ajayi) Crowther, the humble, devout exponent of a Christian faith that was essentially African and essentially missionary, has passed to the whole vast church of Africa and thus to the whole vast church of Christ.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps152.shtml (1793 words)

	Marcus Garvey - Samuel Adjai Crowther - Great People of Color
		SAMUEL ADJAI CROWTHER, foe of the slave trade and the liquor traffic in Africa and pioneer of civilization in the basin of the Niger, was the first Negro on record to be ordained a bishop of the United Church of Great Britain and Ireland.
		Crowther was born in West Africa about 1806, and belonged to the Yoruba, one of the oldest and most advanced of the tribes of Africa.
		Adjai was taken to Sierra Leone and placed in a missionary school, where he was baptized and given the name of Crowther.
	www.marcusgarvey.com /wmprint.php?ArtID=436 (2089 words)

	Samuel Crowther: from Liberated Slave to Bishop of Niger \| Chasing Freedom Exhibition: the Royal Navy and the ...
		Crowther was not a member of the West Africa Squadron but later became the Bishop of Niger.
		Adjai was only 12 or 13 when he was kidnapped into slavery in 1821.
		Samuel Crowther is one of the few enslaved Africans that we know anything about to have been liberated from slavery by the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron. He was also the first African Bishop ever to be ordained in the Anglican Church.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /visit_see_victory_cfexhibition_crowther.htm (286 words)

	Samuel Ajayi Crowther Summary
		Samuel Crowther, of the Yoruba tribe, was enslaved in 1821 and put aboard a ship which was captured by the British navy.
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a member of the Yoruba ethnic group.
		Following the expedition, Crowther was recalled to England, where he was trained as a minister and ordained by the bishop of London.
	www.bookrags.com /Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther (949 words)

	Great Christians in History
		Samuel Crowther (about 1806-91) was the outstand- ing African Christian leader of his time.
		Adjai (prop- erly Ajayi) was born in the Egba group of the Yoruba people in what is now Nigeria.
		But the slave ship was intercepted by a British warship, and Adjai was taken to Sierra Leone where he was converted and baptized, taking the name Samuel Crowther.
	www.exodusnews.com /Religion/Religion003.htm (201 words)

	Crowther, Samuel Adjai (or Ajayi), Nigeria, Anglican Church
		Crowther was born with the name Ajayi in Osogun, in the Egba section of the Yoruba people, in what is now western Nigeria.
		The CMS secretary, Henry Venn, saw Crowther as a potential demonstration of the feasibility of self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating African churches and in 1857 sent him to open a new mission on the Niger.
		Part of the Niger Mission retained its autonomy as the Niger Delta Pastorate Church, under Crowther's son Archdeacon D. Crowther, and at least one of the European missionaries, H. Dobinson, repented of earlier hasty judgments.
	www.dacb.org /stories/nigeria/crowther5_samuel.html (511 words)

	Crowther p6/6
		In this letter he refers to Samuel Adjai Crowther (the former slave), and a African Bishop, who took his brother's name (Jonathan Crowther) for his own.
		Doctor of Divinity- a native of Africa, whose original name was Adjai, was captured and enslaved by Mohammedan traders, and subsequently released and taken by an English ship-of-war to Sierra Leone.
		Crowther, London, 1852, and the Slave-Boy who became Bishop of the Niger, London,1888, Besides the grammar and Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language mentioned and translation of parts of the New Testament and etc. into that language, he published; 1.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /makinson/Crowtherhistp6.htm (705 words)

	Crowther Family Crest
		Crowther was originally a name for a person who played a "crowd," a stringed instrument similar to a fiddle or six-string violin.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Crowther who settled in New Hampshire in 1631; Elizabeth James and Mary Crowthers settled in Richmond, Virginia in 1820; Thomas Crowder who settled in Barbados in 1634 and later transferred to the mainland.
		In the Crowther coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/crowther-family-crest.htm (557 words)

	CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY ARCHIVE Section IV: Africa Missions Part 10: Nigeria - Niger, 1881-1934
		One of them was Samuel Crowther, by then a teacher at Freetown, who was chosen because he was himself a Yoruba from Western Nigeria.
		Crowther and a young Englishman, Henry Townsend, were sent to them and began the Yoruba mission, with its headquarters at Abeokuta.
		Crowther died in 1891 and the Niger and Yoruba missions were united in one diocese, Western Equatorial Africa, under an English bishop J S Hill.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /collections_az/CMS-4-10/description.aspx (1873 words)

	Samuel Crowther: The Slave Boy Who Became Bishop of the Niger, by Jesse Page (c. 1892)
		Idda had to be given up through the treacherous conduct of a chief, who made a prisoner of Crowther and his son, the present Archdeacon, and demanded from the English a considerable sum for their ransom.
		At the time of which we speak, when Bishop Crowther was forming the Christian Church there, the shocking practice of cannibalism was not yet wholly given up, and the people were entirely under the power of the priests of the Juju or fetish worship.
		Crowther tells us he "turned to Psalm li., and carefully read the whole to him, and concluded by pointing him to Jesus Christ, who has shed His blood for us all, for him (the chief), for me, for every man, and he that believeth in His name shall be saved.
	anglicanhistory.org /africa/crowther/page1892/10.html (3334 words)

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		Crowther was baptized by the Rev. John Rahan of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS).
		Crowther returned to England to be ordained a priest on Trinity Sunday, 1843.
		Crowther spent nine months of a year in Lagos, the CMS headquarters, which he didn’t like, and he was also dependent on the West African Company to travel upriver to the mission sites.
	www.hillcovch.org /Hspecial/crowther.htm (812 words)

	Abecedaria: Samuel Ajayi Crowther
		Adjai (properly Ajayi) was born in the Egba group of the Yoruba people in what is now Nigeria.
		There are several accounts of Samuel Crowther on the internet and most of them end here.
		The truth is that during Crowther's years as bishop, policy and personnel in England changed, and from the time of Crowther's death in 1891 until 1952 there was no other African bishop in the Anglican Church.
	abecedaria.blogspot.com /2005/10/samuel-ajayi-crowther.html (533 words)

	Nigeria - Influence of the Christian Missions
		The CMS initially promoted Africans to responsible positions in the mission field, an outstanding example being the appointment of Samuel Adjai Crowther as the first Anglican bishop of the Niger.
		Crowther, a liberated Yoruba slave, had been educated in Sierra Leone and in Britain, where he was ordained before returning to his homeland with the first group of missionaries sent there by the CMS.
		Crowther was succeeded as bishop by a British cleric.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/14.htm (379 words)

	The Church of Nigeria - Becker Bible Studies Library
		Crowther was probably the best known African Christian who was born into slavery.
		He was baptized by the Reverend John Rahan, of the Anglican Church Missionary Society and he took the name Samuel Crowther appointed a schoolmaster of the mission in Sierra Leone.
		The Reverend Henry Townsend, Samuel Adjai Crowther, and C.A. Gollmer who was a German missionary, along with carpenters, builders and teachers went to the Yomba community to establish a new Christian community.
	www.guidedbiblestudies.com /library/church_of_nigeria.htm (1927 words)

	The Book of Common Prayer among the Nations of the World: Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone
		The mission of the Brass river was commenced in 1867 by Bishop Crowther.
		From the very beginning Crowther was the leader in that mission, for the growth of which most of his translational work was done.
		Samuel Adjai Crowther was born about the year 1809, of negro parents, at Ochugu, in the Yoruba country.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bcp/Muss-Arnolt/part6c.htm (7314 words)

	Samuel Adjai Crowther
		His first sermon, which was preached to a white congregation at Northrup Church, was warmly praised by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, noted abolitionist, and others who had journeyed especially to hear him.
		For this Crowther was being blamed in England.
		To join the Samuel Adjai Crowther Research team, send an email to join@ijebu.org clearly stating the role you'll like to play.
	www.ijebu.org /conquerors/samuelCrowther (2092 words)

	Niger Mission, by Samuel Adjai Crowther (1872)
		Bishop Crowther resides for a part of the year at Lagos, and annually visits the Niger when the depth of water for a few months allows trading ships or Her Majesty's gunboats to ascend the river.
		For the negociation of this affair Bishop Crowther and the commander of Her Majesty's gunboats, then in the river, together with a deputation from the settlement, visited King Masaba at Bida, and received from him the assurance of his protection and friendly assistance.
		The appointment of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, D.D., as Bishop of those parts of West Africa which lie beyond the limits of the diocese of Sierra Leone, marked an era which is full of hope for the extension of Christianity by a Native Church under a Native Episcopacy.
	anglicanhistory.org /africa/crowther/niger1872.html (9827 words)

	THe origins of Sapele Township in British Colonial Nigeria
		The first attempt to establish a Mission and a School in the Benin River area was in 1875, 16 years before the administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate began.
		When the Ogugumanga Industrial Institute, Bonny, was founded in April, 1900, each of the local Chiefs was requested by Government to bring a son for primary education.
		Crowther D.C. The Niger Delta Pastorate Church West Africa.
	www.waado.org /Biographies/Salubi/Publications/Sapele.htm (6676 words)

	Sir Henry Leeke: Hero of the Preventative Squadron \| Chasing Freedom Exhibition: the Royal Navy and the Suppression of ...
		Sir Henry Leeke is remembered as a highly active officer of the Squadron and in 1835, he received a Knighthood for his services on the coast of Africa, becoming Sir Henry Leeke.
		Adjai later became Samuel Adjai Crowther, the first African Bishop ordained into the Anglican Church, and Bishop of Niger.
		Sir Henry was one of the guests at Crowther’s ordination in 1864, over forty years after they first met.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /visit_see_victory_cfexhibition_leeke.htm (118 words)

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		In it's former splendor, Sierra Leone became known as the "Athens of West Africa" as scholars from all over Africa would travel to Sierra Leone to further their education.
		Samuel Adjai Crowther, the college’s first student, later becomes the first home-grown Bishop of West Africa.
		The Sierra Leone Museum (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm; entry by donation) was, until 1929, a railway terminus ("Cotton Tree Station") at the foot of the "Hill railway" up to Wilberforce and Hill Station.
	www.visitsierraleone.org /thingstodo.asp (1620 words)

	SAMUEL ADJAI CROWTHER ... - Online Information article about SAMUEL ADJAI CROWTHER ...
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		Crowther's return from another visit to England, the large See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CRE_DAH/CROWTHER_SAMUEL_ADJAI_18o91895_.html (585 words)

	Biography of Samuel Adjai Crowther \| Life of Samuel Adjai Crowther
		1806-1891) was a pioneer African missionary and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria.Samuel Crowther, of the Yoruba tribe, was enslaved in 1821 and put aboard a ship which was captured by the British navy.
		He was invited to England for further training and ordained in the Church of England in 1843.Crowther worked as a priest in Sierra Leone but soon became a member of the Anglican Mission in Nigeria, first at Badgray and later at Abeokuta.
		Further Reading A full-length biography of Crowther is Jesse Page, The Black Bishop: Samuel Adjai Crowther (1908).
	www.essayboom.com /biographies/Samuel_Adjai_Crowther-33717.html (320 words)

	President Kabbah: University Congregation Address - 14 December 2002 - Sierra Leone Web
		He has been fondly described in many historical and other accounts as the slave boy who became a Bishop of the Church Missionary Society, and a great teacher.
		Samuel Adjai Crowther should therefore serve as an inspiration for all those who will have the opportunity, indeed the privilege, of passing through these walls as students of the University of Sierra Leone.
		As Chancellor of this University and Head of State, I am aware of the seriousness of the constraints that continue to impede the effectiveness of the University; constraints such as inadequate material and human resources, and the increasing demand for university education without a corresponding expansion in infrastructure.
	www.sierra-leone.org /kabbah121402.html (2776 words)

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