21 October 2021
Black History Month Profile
Sir Lesley McCarthy: A Pioneer of Africanisation
of the Senior Civil Service in the Gold Coast
by Margaret Esiri, Emeritus Fellow
My late husband, Frederick’s, grandfather was Leslie McCarthy (1885-1970). Leslie’s father hailed from Sierra Leone and his mother from Hull. They probably met when Leslie’s father came to Britain to qualify as a lawyer. After they married they settled in Sierra Leone but, sadly, his mother died there in 1889 at the age of 32. Leslie seems t...
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