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Jul 23, 2024 · Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780) who escaped from a background of slavery and rose to distinction in Georgian London, having his portrait painted by society artist, Thomas Gainsborough, will be honoured alongside his wife, Anne Osborne when a new memorial is dedicated in their memory in St Margaret’s Church, next to Westminster Abbey on Tu...
Jan 11, 2024 · Though likely born enslaved, Sancho lived and worked as a free man in eighteenth-century London. Sancho came to occupy a unique position in London society that straddled the elite social worlds of the aristocracy and the everyday life of the city.
Ignatius Sancho was a Black British writer and musician who was deeply engaged with the visual and performing arts as a means for calling attention to the inhumanity and hypocrisy of discrimination, racism, and the enslavement of Black people in London and across the British empire.
Georgian London was a city of wealth, high culture, art and politics. It was also home to Black British businessman, writer and composer, Charles Ignatius Sancho, a polymath with an incredible story to tell. Paterson Joseph explores Sancho’s story from his early life in Greenwich, right through to his final resting place in Westminster.
- His Life
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He was born on a slave ship in 1729, en route from Guinea to the Spanish West Indies. At Carthagena the bishop there christened him Ignatius (in honour of the Spanish founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius de Loyola). His mother died of disease and his father killed himself. When he was about two years old he was taken to England, to a household in Green...
On 19th December 2023 a Portland stone memorial tablet was unveiled for him by Arthur Torrington CBE, on the north wall of St Margaret's church, near the chapel of Christ the Intercessor. The tablet was given by The EquianoSociety. The letters were cut by Marcia Bennett-Male and are painted a grey-blue colour. The inscription reads: "IGNATIUS SANCH...
Order of Service for the dedication of a memorial to Ignatius Sancho and Ann Osborne Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho...by V. Carretta, 1998 Ignatius Sancho...an early African composer in Englandby J. Wright (ed.) 1981 Ignatius Sancho: an African man of lettersby R. King (ed.) 1997 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
Dec 20, 2021 · Sancho wasn’t considered a person but a piece of property – and he belonged to the highest bidder. The young orphan – whose mother died in slavery and whose father killed himself rather than live another day without his freedom – spent his first years as a slave in New Granada.
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Sancho, bribed by the duke's promise of a governship to ride on Clavileno, merely made up lies but unlike his master is unable to believe in visions sufficiently to make them come true. Thus valor is the source of the Don's visions, and cowardice the cause of Sancho's lies.
