Sara Forbes Bonetta was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people in West Africa. She was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey and later became the slave of King Ghezo of Dahomery. In a remarkable twist of events, she was liberated from slavery by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy. She married Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist.
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Sara Forbes Bonetta was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people in West Africa. She was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey and later became the slave of King Ghezo of Dahomery. In a remarkable twist of events, she was liberated from slavery by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. She married Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist. She died of tuberculosis on 15 August 1880 in the city of Funchal, the capital of Madeira Island, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean. Her husband, Captain Davies, erected a granite obelisk-shaped monument in memory of Sara Bonetta at Ijon in Western Lagos, where he had started a cocoa farm.
Many of Sara’s other descendants now live in either Sierra Leone or England, while a separate branch, the Forbes family of Lagos remains prominent in Nigeria, where she was a prominent member of the Lagos socialite class. She had three children: Victoria Matilda Davies, Arthur Davies, and Stella Davies. The first daughter of Bonetta, was named after and also goddaughter of Queen Victoria, and married the successful Lagos doctor Dr. John Randle.
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