James Bannerman

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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

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

  1. ^ "James Bannerman". African Lisbon Tour. 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  2. ^ Hesse, Hermann W. von (8 April 2024). "More Than an Intermediary: James Bannerman and Colonial Space-Making on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast". African Studies Review. 67 (2): 396–415. doi:10.1017/asr.2024.20. ISSN 0002-0206.
  3. ^ "Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade". enslaved.org. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  4. ^ "Bannerman, James". Encyclopaedia Africana. 2025-03-02. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ https://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/16-23-106159/James_Bannerman_DAB.pdf
  7. ^ Dhyana Ziegler, Molefi K. Asante, Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa, Africa World Press, 1992, p. 12.


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