| LC control no. | n 78080638 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Fourah Bay College |
| Variant(s) | FBC (Fourah Bay College) Freetown, Sierra Leone. Fourah Bay College Freetown (Sierra Leone). Fourah Bay College Freetown (Sierra Leone). University College of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone. University College University College of Sierra Leone University of Durham. Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone. Fourah Bay College |
| See also | Hierarchical superior: University of Durham Hierarchical superior: University of Sierra Leone |
| Beginning date | 1827 |
| Associated country | Sierra Leone |
| Located | Freetown (Sierra Leone) |
| Special note | AACR 1 form: Fourah Bay College |
| Found in | Gt. Brit. Commission on Fourah Bay College. Fourah Bay College. Report of the Commission ... 1939. Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone website, page from ca. 1998, viewed July 30, 2014 (FBC; founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1827, to train Africans as schoolmasters, catechists and clergymen; in 1876 the CMS was able to get the College affiliated to Durham University, and more courses were added; during World War II the colonial govt. took over the college buildings, and the college was moved temporarily to Cline Town and then Mabang, about 40 miles from Freetown; in Jan. 1965 a royal charter constituted Fourah Bay College as the University College of Sierra Leone, still affiliated with the University of Durham; from Sep. 1, 1966, the college became a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone, which itself was constituted under the University of Sierra Leone Act 1967; in 1972 the University of Sierra Leone Act established a unitary system embracing Fourah Bay College, Njala University College and 1-2 smaller colleges, each with a large measure of autonomy) |
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