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By Frances Sands, Curator of Drawings and Books Today marks the beginning of Black History Month 2021. Catherine Ross, Editor of Black History Month 2021 has launched ‘a festival of celebration’, and this short essay, ‘In honour of Ignatius Sancho’, is offered by Sir John Soane’s Museum in commemoration of a remarkable figure in British history.
13 de jul. de 2022 · Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 1780) was a celebrated writer, abolitionist, grocer and composer. He is perhaps best known for being the first Briton of African descent to have voted in a British parliamentary election. Though born into slavery in the West Indies, Sancho was taken to London and ultimately educated under the employment of John ...
31 de mar. de 2022 · Friend and mentor. By the time that Sancho cast his vote in the general election of 1774, he had developed a circle of friends and acquaintances that spanned all classes of British society from servants to duchesses. For some, the African businessman, composer and man of letters would have been no more than a curiosity; however, for others, the ...
Because of his financially-independent householder status, Ignatius was eligible to vote and in 1774, Sancho became the first black person of African origin to vote in parliamentary elections in Britain, voting twice in 1774 and again on the year of his death in 1780. After his death in 1780, Sancho’s letters were published in a book, which ...
Signature. Ignatius Sancho was an African born around 1729 on a slave ship. Towards the end of his extraordinary life, he became a British citizen and was eligible to vote in the parliamentary election of 1774, and then again in 1780. The details of his early life are not certain. He was born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic.
21 de oct. de 2021 · Ignatius Sancho 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough oil on canvas. From Getty Images. Details of Sancho’s early life are disputed. An early biography written by his near contemporary Joseph Jekyll was at least partially based on Sancho’s own account.
In 1758 Sancho married Ann Osborne here at St Margaret’s church right next to Westminster Abbey. Ann was born in London and baptised at the Church of St. Mary in Whitechapel on 26 September in 1733. Her parents, John and Mary (Clarke) Osborne had married in the same church in 1732 on the 5 of November. Ann Sancho was a free Black British ...
