Hamble James Leacock

Hamble James Leacock (1795–1856) was an African missionary. He was born in Barbados, where his father John Wrong Leacock was a slaveholder. He was educated at Codrington College, St John, Barbados.[1]

Hamble James Leacock

Leacock became a clergyman and gave the privileges of the Church to all slaves of his parish, at the same time freeing his own slaves. Difficulty with his Bishop, insurrection of slaves and depreciation in the value of property encouraged him to move to the United States, where he settled in Kentucky, Tennessee, and in New Jersey. In October 1855 together with John Weeks (bishop) he sailed from Plymouth in England for Sierra Leone as a missionary of the West Indian Church Association, and founded a mission station in what is now the Anglican Diocese of Gambia at Rio Pongas. He became very ill and eventually returned to Freetown to convalesce, but died there on 20 August 1856.

Publications
  • Henry Caswell, The Martyr of the Pongas, (New York, 1857)
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References
  1. "Summary of Individual Rev. Hamble James Leacock, 4th Feb 1795 - 20th Aug 1856, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  • ANGLICAN HISTORY
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