Missionary and colonial official in West Africa (1809–1890)
The Reverend
Thomas Birch Freeman
Thomas Birch Freeman, 1840s
Born
(1809-12-06)6 December 1809
Twyford, Hampshire, England
Died
12 August 1890(1890-08-12) (aged 80)
Accra, Gold Coast
Nationality
British
Occupations
Clergyman
Missionary
Civil Servant
Botanist
Spouses
Elizabeth Booth
(m. 1837; died 1838)
Lucinda Cowan
(m. 1840; died 1841)
Rebecca Morgan
(m. 1854)
Children
4
Parents
Thomas Freeman (father)
Amy Birch (mother)
Church
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Ordained
Islington Chapel, London
10 October 1837
Thomas Birch Freeman (6 December 1809 in Twyford, Hampshire – 12 August 1890 in Accra) was an Anglo-African Wesleyan minister, missionary, botanist and colonial official in West Africa.[1][2][3][4] He is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Methodist Church in colonial West Africa, where he also established multiple schools.[5][6][7][8] Some scholars view him as the "Founder of Ghana Methodism".[9][10] Freeman's missionary activities took him to Dahomey, now Benin as well as to Western Nigeria.[3][11]
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^F., Walls. "Thomas Birch Freeman 1809-1890 Methodist Ghana". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
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^"Freeman, Thomas Birch". Dictionary of African Christian Biography Online. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018.
^Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802846808. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^Ansah, David (2014). Time Series Analysis of Enrolment of Pupils in Public Second Cycle Schools in the Assin South District(PDF). Kumasi: KNUST: College of Science, Department of Mathematics. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^Igwe, E. (June 1963). "Thomas Birch Freeman: Pioneer Methodist Mission to Nigeria". Nigeria Magazine. 77: 79–89.
^Essamuah, Casely B. (2004). Ghanaian Appropriation of Wesleyan Theology in Mission 1961-2000. Methodist Missionary Society History Project. November 25-26, 2003. Salisbury, United Kingdom.: Sarum College.
^Eagle Omnibus (1947). Number Six: [A collection of short biographies of Joseph Hardy Neesima, Alexander Mackay, Thomas Birch Freeman, Robert Hockman, William Brett, and Kwegyir Aggrey]. London: Cargate Press.
^Omoyajowo, J. Akinyele (1995). Makers of the Church in Nigeria. Lagos, Nigeria: CSS Bookshops Ltd. Pub. Unit.
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