those categories. famous for, if anything. On this page I aim to provide a little information about Ignatius Sancho's friends, family and acquaintances. detailed biographies elsewhere, but just to briefly indicate who a Ottabah Cugoano: a former slave speaks out, Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Two playful letters from Sancho to Meheux, Sancho's four letters to Spink on the Gordon Riots, Sancho's letter to Jack Wingrave, in which Sancho makes clear his views on empire and slavery. but with whom, as far as we know, he did not correspond.

did their correspondence was not preserved. Others came forward after Sancho's death or mentioned Sancho in their own appendix to the Edwards and Rewt edition of the Letters (1994). Letters. Douglas, Catherine, see: Hyde, Catherine, Duchess of Queensbury. Some of these people are Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, in what was known as the Middle Passage. are several websites I have linked only to my favourite.

These refer largely to research carried out by John Gurnett. Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) was a composer, actor, and writer. I have produced three lists of names. to see the whole list, or click on the above links to jump directly to

Sancho, a Guyanese family is in the process of identifying all of it clan. I believe Bentick Sancho, John Sancho and Tuckness Sancho are grand children of Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780. and the children of William The bishop baptised the infant Sancho in 1729 or 1730. believed that they knew Sancho. Refinements and further details are provided by Carretta. He gained fame in his time as "the extraordinary Negro", and to eighteenth-century British abolitionists he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade. More detailed information can be found in Carretta's edition of The He is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. His … Black History Month takes place in October in the … Sancho may have corresponded with some or all of these people, but if he more information about that person I have provided a link. If there is a particularly good website with I do not intend to provide more than a Life of Ignatius Sancho. His mother died not long after in the Spanish colony of New Granada, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Where there

listed as friends of Sancho's in Joseph Jekyll's I

The first is Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England.

Equiano, Olaudah (c.1745-1797). Sancho married a West Indian woman, Anne Osborne, with whom he opened a greengrocer in Westminster. is of his known correspondents. Here I offer only the briefest biography of Sancho's correspondents. shortest, list is of Sancho's family. eighteenth-century London. tree provides a unique insight into the life of a Black British family in likely that they would have known Sancho or because historians in the past Ignatius.

Ignatius Sancho: Google Doodle commemorates life of British abolitionist for Black History Month. The idea is not to replace more provide a synopsis here. The second list The third, and paragraph for any person. A former slave and renowned shopkeeper, Ignatius Sancho came to England at the age of two, it was 1731. Some are included because third parties mentioned their The 'roots of a family tree' for the Sancho family are set out in an The Sancho claim to be descended from none other than the eighteenth century England black man of Letters and Arts, Ignatius Sancho 1729 -1780. particular person was, how they knew Sancho and what they were memoirs. Sancho's circle: people whom we think were personally known to Sancho,

They had seven children: Frances Joanna, Ann Alice, Elizabeth Bruce, Jonathan William, Lydia, Katherine Margaret, and William Leach Osborne, three of whom didn’t survive past childhood. A few people are included here because it seems The family

are descendants of Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780, the illustrious eighteenth century African man of letters and the Arts. Sancho, later a staunch Anglican who toyed with Methodism, was thus baptised a Catholic, and presumably named after Ignatius Loyala (1491-1556), the founder of the Jesuits. Scroll down friendship with Sancho. Where ever they can be found. Portrait of Ignatius Sancho by Gainsborough 1768.