Robert Foresythe: Black British Jazz legend of Saro descent by Nigel Dylan Davies

Reginald Foresythe was born on 28 May, 1907 to Charles Albert Foresythe, a barrister, and his English wife, Charlotte Annie (nee Falk) at their home in Shepherd’s Bush (West London) at Hetley Road. Reginald’s mother was of German descent, but his father, Charles Albert Foresythe, a newly qualified barrister (1906) was the descendant of a prominent Saro (the term for Sierra Leoneans in Nigeria) family.

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Arthur Williamson O’Dwyer: A Saro in Calabar, Nigeria by Nigel Dylan Davies

Arthur Williamson O’Dwyer was born in February 21 1861 to Major Gage Hall O’Dwyer, a soldier in the 1st Indian Regiment (the First West India Regiment) and a Sierra Leonean mother. O’Dwyer attended a Roman Catholic primary school before entering the Wesleyan Boy’s High School where he met lifelong friends and acquaintances such as Dr. Albert Whiggs Easmon and Johnnie Moses Horton, who eventually became Freetown city treasurer.

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