Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into an Igbo family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the Sierra Leone Grammar School in 1845.
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Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into an Igbo family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the Sierra Leone Grammar School in 1845. After graduating from Fourah Bay College, Horton received a War Office scholarship study medicine in Britain to prepare him for a career in the British Armed Forces, and he attended King's College London and the University of Edinburgh. Serving in the West India Regiments, Horton was posted to various locations within the British Empire, including Lagos, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast and participated in the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
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