Henry Johnson Jr. was a Saro archdeacon of The Upper Niger 'Holy' Johnson, Pioneer of African Nationalism, 1836-1917 Ayandele, E.A. p229: Abingdon, Cass, 2005 from 1878The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 Hastings, A. p347: Oxford, Clarendon, 1994 to 1891.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p730: London, Horace Cox, 1898
Johnson was born in October 1840 (or November 10, 1840) in Hastings, Sierra Leone as the first child of Henry Erugujinmi Johnson Sr. (1810-11/2/1865) and Sarah Johnson (died 23/6/1876). Johnson's parents had been captured as slaves but were liberated in Freetown and resettled in the village of Hastings. He was baptized on January 24, 1841. He had six younger siblings, Nathaniel Johnson (1844-1921), Samuel Johnson, Obadiah Johnson, Adolphus Stephen Johnson, Mrs. Margaret Sarah Brown (later Cole) (d. 1920), and Mrs. Rosaline Dorothy Allen (nee Johnson). Their father was from the Gbagere compound in the defunct Oyo metropolis of what is today Nigeria. Through his father, he claimed to be a great-grandson of Alaafin Abiodun of the Oyo Empire, and thus was an Omoba of the Oyo people.DACB
He joined his parents in their mission to Ibadan on February 11, 1858. He then trained for Anglican priesthood at Church Missionary Society College, Islington.Justus He was ordained deacon at St. George's Cathedral, Sierra Leone in 1866, and priest in 1867. Johnson served at Fourah Bay, Sherbro,"The missionary history of Sierra Leone" Seddall, H. p234:London, Hatchards,1874 and Lokoja. He was awarded an honorary M.A. of Cambridge University in 1886.Alumni Cantabrigienses Part II vol iii p579
Johnson died in 1901.The Missing Chapter
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