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Dec 06, 1809 Twyford, England, United Kingdom Died on 12 Aug 1890 (aged 80)
Missionary and colonial official in West Africa
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About Thomas Birch Freeman
- Thomas Birch Freeman (6 December 1809 in Twyford, Hampshire – 12 August 1890 in Accra) was an Anglo-African Wesleyan minister, missionary, botanist and colonial official in West Africa.
- He is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Methodist Church in colonial West Africa, where he also established multiple schools.
- Some scholars view him as the “Founder of Ghana Methodism”.
- Freeman's missionary activities took him to Dahomey, now Benin as well as to Western Nigeria.
