Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Sarah Forbes Bonetta or Sally Forbes Bonetta was ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She was believed to have been a titled member of the Yewa subgroup of the Yoruba people in West Africa who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey as a child, and was later enslaved by King Ghezo of Dahomey. She was given by Ghezo as a "gift" to Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist.