Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Pinson Labulo Davies NPG Ax61383

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Camille Silvy

African merchant-sailor, naval officer, businessman, pioneer industrialist, statesman and philanthropist. Davies was of Yoruba descent, born in Sierra Leone to parents liberated by the British West Africa Squadron from the Atlantic Slave Trade. He attended the Church Missionary Society Grammar School, becoming a teacher with the CMS in Freetown after completing his secondary education. Following this he enlisted with the British Navy's West Africa Squadron, serving on HMS Volcano, working his way up the ranks from cadet to lieutenant. Retiring from the navy in 1852... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.