The life of James Pinson Labulo Davies : a colossus of Victorian Lagos

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Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies) (1843-1880), Goddaughter of Queen Victoria:Image archive". London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 30 September 2006.

Prince (Dejatch) Alamayou of Abyssinia (Prince Alemayehu Tewodros of Ethiopia); Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy (NPG x34167) Sarah and James had two more children, but by the late 1860s Sarah was suffering from tuberculosis, for which there was no cure. She eventually travelled to Madeira, hoping that its temperate climate would help with her condition. But she died there on 15 August 1880, at the age of 37. Captain Forbes renamed her Sara Forbes Bonetta, after himself and his ship HMS Bonetta. Forbes initially intended to raise her himself. However, Queen Victoria was impressed by the young woman's "exceptional intelligence", and had the woman, whom she called Sally, [8] raised as her goddaughter in the British middle class. [8] [9] [10] More recently, Bristol Museums have announced that a series of photographs by the artist Heather Agyepong – inspired by the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta – will go on display. Davies was also a close associate and friend of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther. Both men collaborated on a couple of Lagos social initiatives such as the opening of The Academy (a social and cultural center for public enlightenment) on October 24, 1866 with Bishop Crowther as the first patron and Davies as its first president.

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Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean (1965). A Preface to Modern Nigeria: the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830-1890. University of Wisconsin Press. p.286.

It is not clear whether Gezo offered the child freely or whether Forbes bargained for her, but she clearly impressed him. Forbes believed that the fact that Gezo had held her for two years and not sold her to slave traders meant she was likely to be of high status. He also feared (with reason, as Gezo was known to sacrifice high-status captives) that she was destined to be offered as a human sacrifice. So extraordinary a present would have been at least burden, had I not the conviction that, in consideration of the nature of the service I had performed, the government would consider her as the property of the crown. James Pinson Labulo Davies (1828 – 1906). Davies was a businessman, farmer, merchant-sailor, naval officer, industrialist, statesman, philanthropist, and the husband of Sara Forbes Bonetta ( Princess Aina). Davies was a lieutenant on HMS Bloodhound , the vessel which capture Lagos in 1841 ousting the Oba Kosoko, with the objective of ending the slave trade. Davies is credited with the introduction of cocoa farming and spreading the knowledge of cocoa farming to West Africa, using seeds from he obtained from a Brazilian ship and the island of Fernando Po. He was also a sponsor of the CMS Grammar School. According to Chief Justice W.B. Griffiths, the son Governor of the Gold Coast from 1885 to 1895 Sir Brandford Griffiths, whose father introduced cocoa planting to the Gold Coast:Sarah Forbes Bonetta, by French photographer Camille-Léon-Louis Silvy (1834–1910), in a photo taken on Sept. 15. 1862. Wikimedia Commons Collis, Rose (2010). The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton: (based on the original by Tim Carder) (1sted.). Brighton: Brighton & Hove Libraries. ISBN 978-0-9564664-0-2. L. C. Gwam (1967). Great Nigerians: First Series. 1. Times Press. p. 40 . https://books.google.com/?id=5rsMAQAAIAAJ&q=Catherine+Kofoworola+Raffle&dq=Catherine+Kofoworola+Raffle.