Author Archives: The Krios Editor
Robert Foresythe: Black British Jazz legend of Saro descent by Nigel Dylan Davies
Reginald Foresythe was born on 28 May, 1907 to Charles Albert Foresythe, a barrister, and his English wife, Charlotte Annie (nee Falk) at their home in Shepherd’s Bush (West London) at Hetley Road. Reginald’s mother was of German descent, but his father, Charles Albert Foresythe, a newly qualified barrister (1906) was the descendant of a …
Continue reading “Robert Foresythe: Black British Jazz legend of Saro descent by Nigel Dylan Davies”
Arthur Williamson O’Dwyer: A Saro in Calabar, Nigeria by Nigel Dylan Davies
Arthur Williamson O’Dwyer was born in February 21 1861 to Major Gage Hall O’Dwyer, a soldier in the 1st Indian Regiment (the First West India Regiment) and a Sierra Leonean mother. O’Dwyer attended a Roman Catholic primary school before entering the Wesleyan Boy’s High School where he met lifelong friends and acquaintances such as Dr. …
Continue reading “Arthur Williamson O’Dwyer: A Saro in Calabar, Nigeria by Nigel Dylan Davies”
The Thomas’ of Benguema
This short history of the Thomas’, a village just outside Freetown is taken from “The Winding Road“: The Freetown house was a transit station for the Thomases. Their roots are in Benguema. This was the house built as a Freetown retreat for the family, with money partly provided by my father. He had built his …