Sara Forbes Bonetta photographed by Camille Silvy in 1862
Born
Aina (also Ina)[1]
1843
Oke Odan, Yorubaland
Died
15 August 1880 (aged 36–37)
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
Cause of death
Tuberculosis
Resting place
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
Other names
Sarah Forbes Bonetta Sally Forbes Bonetta
Spouse
James Pinson Labulo Davies
(m. 1862)
Children
Victoria Davies (daughter)
Arthur Davies (son)
Stella Davies (daughter)
Relatives
John Randle (physician) (son-in-law)
Ameyo Adadevoh (great-great-granddaughter)
Sara Forbes Bonetta, otherwise known as Sally Forbes Bonetta, (born Aina or Ina; c. 1843 – 15 August 1880),[2] was ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She was believed to have been a titled member of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa, who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey as a child, and was later enslaved by King Ghezo of Dahomey. She was given as a "gift" to Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist.
^Anim-Addo, Joan (2015). "Bonetta [married name Davies], (Ina) Sarah Forbes [Sally] (C. 1843–1880), Queen Victoria's ward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75453. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Elebute, Adeyemo (2013). The Life of James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Colossus of Victorian Lagos. Kachifo Limited/Prestige. p. 138. ISBN 9789785205763.
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