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Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780)



Profile: A composer, actor and writer. He is the first known 
Black Briton to vote in a British election

Plaque location: Foreign and Commonwealth Office – 
King Charles Street, Westminster, 
London SW1A 2AH

Plaque inscription: ‘Writer, symbol of the Humanity of Africans 
Lived and had a grocery shop near this site’


Ignatius Sancho
Oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery of Canada

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