Thomas Birch Freeman

Thomas Birch Freeman (6 December 1809, Twyford, Hampshire – 12 August 1890, Accra) was a Methodist missionary and colonial official in West Africa.

Thomas Birch Freeman was the son of an African father, Thomas Freeman, and an English mother, Amy Birch. He worked as gardener and botanist for Sir Robert Harland at Orwell Park near Ipswich until dismissed for abandoning Anglicanism for Wesleyan Methodism. He became a Methodist missionary to West Africa, founding Methodist churches in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. After resigning as a missionary in 1857, he was employed by the colonial government as civil commandant of Accra district from 1857 to 1873.^[1]

References

^ John Flint, ‘Freeman, Thomas Birch (1809–1890)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 4 Jan 2010

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Name	Freeman, Thomas Birch
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Date of birth	6 December 1809
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Date of death	12 August 1890
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