Daniel Wycliffe Sargent

Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (born July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. Sargent was listed as the Agent General of the Royal Niger Company 1889 in Akassa. His brother Edward Sargent was the English American Architect. Daniel Sargent had three wives. The second wife was the African chief's daughter Utsekanua born in Iddah, River Niger, West Africa 1856. They had one daughter, Ellen.

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  • Hertslet's Commercial Treaties: A Collection of Treaties and ... - Volume 17 - Page 211

Great Britain, Great Britain. Foreign Office - 1890 - Read - More editions His D. W. Sargent. >4 Chief Ozom. OYAN. mark. Witnesses to the mark of the Chief of Igabo : Isms Palmer. W. Tl G. Munday. S. F. Jonnson. (8-3.)-—Treaty with the Chiefs of O/caba, January 8, 1885. Her Majesty the Queen

  • The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, ... - Volume 12 - Page 211

Goldie, Sir George Dashwood Taubman (1846- ), English administrator, the founder of Nigeria, was born on the 20th ... Through Joseph Thomson, David Mcintosh, D. W. Sargent, J. Flint, William Wallace, E. Dangerfield and numerous. Reference 3. British and foreign state papers, Volume 87 By Great Britain. Foreign Office

  • Joseph Thomson and the exploration of Africa - Page 210

Robert I. Rotberg - 1971 - Snippet view - More editions Three days later, with the spectre of Flegel to spur his movements, Thompson joined Hamilton and D. W. Sargent, the Company's second-in-command on the river, aboard the motor launch Frangais. Together they slowly passed through the narrow, Joseph Thomson and the exploration of Africa - Page 214

These agreements could with luck enable Goldie to exclude his competitors, pari passu, and despite the provisions of freedom of navigation ... In view of the hostility of the Etsu of Nupe, Thomson, Sargent, and McIntosh - whom Thomson met at Lokoja and liked immensely ... purpose the common labourers who worked for the Company at Lokoja and one or two other posts farther north along the Niger.

Encyclopedia of exploration, 1850 to 1940: continental exploration - Page 365

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