| LC control no. | no 99017068 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, 1843?-1880 |
| Variant(s) | Aina, Omoba, 1843?-1880 Bonetta, Ina Sarah Forbes, 1843?-1880 Bonetta, Sara Forbes, 1843?-1880 Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, 1843?- Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, b. 1843? |
| Associated country | Nigeria Great Britain England Sierra Leone |
| Birth date | 1843~ |
| Death date | 1880-08-15 |
| Place of birth | Okeadon (Benin) Oke Odan (Nigeria) |
| Place of death | Funchal (Madeira Islands) |
| Affiliation | Church Missionary Society. Girls School (Freetown, Sierra Leone) |
| Profession or occupation | Celebrities Pianists Linguists |
| Found in | At her majesty's request, 1999: p. xi (Sarah Forbes Bonetta) OCLC, Mar. 10, 1999 (hdg.: Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, b. 1843?) African American Studies Center, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bonetta, Sarah Forbes; Ina Sarah Forbes Bonetta; celebrity, pianist, linguist, slave; born 1843 in or near the southern Beninese town of Okeadon; became a pawn in negotiations between the Dahomean king with the British crown; Queen Victoria agreed to look after her well-being (1850); stayed with the Forbes family (1850-1851); went to Freetown in the British colony of Sierra Leone to attend the Church Missionary Society (CMS) girls' mission school (until 1853); Queen Victoria paid for her care until she became an adult; continued her education in Brighton (sometime in either the late 1850s or early 1860s); relocated to Lagos; joined the Western-educated elite of the city; taught Sunday school and served as an administrator at a school; her musical talents impressed many people; a photograph of her is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London; died 15 August 1880 in Portugal) Her name was Aina, 2018: pages 214-225 (Sarah Forbes Bonetta; married James Davies, had three children; died of consumption in Funchal, Madeira; buried in the English Cemetery there) Wikipedia, April 29, 2019 (Sara Forbes Bonetta, otherwise spelled Sarah; 1843 - 15 August 1880; originally Omoba [royal title] Aina; born in 1843 at Oke-Odan, an Egbado village, Ogun State; a West African princess of the Yoruba people, orphaned in Dahomeyan raid in 1848, sold into slavery at age five, intended as a human sacrifice, rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who renamed her Sara Forbes Bonetta, "Bonetta" after his ship HMS Bonetta; Queen Victoria, who called her Sally, raised her as her goddaughter in the British middle class; due to a chronic cough she was sent to school in Africa from age 8 to 12, returned to England in 1855; given permission by the Queen to marry Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a Yoruba businessman, in 1862; her daughter Victoria Matilda Davies was also a goddaughter of Queen Victoria, who married Lagos doctor John K. Randle; many of her and her daughter's descendants now live in either England or Sierra Leone, while the Randle family of Lagos remains prominent in Nigeria; Sara Forbes Bonetta died of tuberculosis in Funchal; her husband erected an obelisk in her memory at Ijon, western Lagos, where he had a cocoa farm; inscription: "In memory of Princess Sarah Forbes Bonetta, wife of the Hon. J. P. L. Davies who departed this life at Madeira August 15th 1880 aged 37 years") |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 98034954 |
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