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Henry Carr

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Henry Carr - Nigerian educator and administrator - (1863-1945) He was one of the most prominent West Africans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was a member of the legislative council in Lagos from 1918-1924. He attended Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone where he received an honors degree and was the first graduate of the school to achieve such an honor. After leaving Fourah Bay, he migrated to Nigeria. While in Lagos, Nigeria, he became one of the earliest Africans to hold an administrative position during the colonial period. He was a clerk in the Nigerian secretariat, Lagos in 1888, and became the resident of the colony of Lagos in 1920. Prior to his appointment as a clerk, he was a teacher at CMS Grammar School. Henry Carr was one of the few West Africans during the early twentieth century that broke barriers in colonial governance. Before the second world war, few Africans rose beyond the position of chief clerk in colonial administration.

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