Crowther, Samuel Adjai,
the first negro bishop of the Church of England; was born in Yoruba. He was carried into slavery in 1821, but was freed, along with a large company of his countrymen, by a British man-of-war in 1822, and landed at Sierra-Leone, where he had the advantages of a school and soon became an excellent scholar. He finished his education in England, and accompanied the first and second Niger expeditions. In 1864 he was ordained Bishop of the Niger. He died in 1891.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.