clerk in Holy Orders, teacher, retired Angli can Bishop of La^as; Born at Mobalufon near Ijebu-Ode. 8 June 1904 parents were first christian converts in the village; Education: Mobalafon and Porogun Primary Schools, Ijebu-Ode; Ijebu-Ode Grammar Sc hool (1918-20); Fourah Bay College, Freetown Sierra-Leone, graduated B.A. Dunelm (1934), M.A„(1942)- J!S!fr (192M1>' teacher-priest 1 (1942-43); Principal* C.M.S. Gram- ' mar School, Lagos (1944-49), Prin cipal St. Andrew's College Oyo (1951-63), full time clerk in Holy Orders consecrated Bishop of Lagos (30 November 1963); widely travelled; awarded O.O.N- MBE D.D. (Nsukka & Sierra' Leone)! written-works: 'T'Ibi T'ire" (a Yoruba Essay), "Christian Responsibility in an Independent Nigeria" "Ikinl L'ede" Yorubl" (Yoruba Greetings) and articles in church magazines and international review of missions Married and has six children; Address' c/o Bishop's Court, 29 Marina, P. O. Box 13, Lagos (Telephone 25647) Hobby: gardening, reading, iooking after own and other people's children.
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