Education
University of London.
governor-general speaker barrister
University of London.
He was the first indigenous Governor-General of Sierra Leone. He served as Speaker of the Parliament of Sierra Leone from 1957 to 1962 and as Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 7 July 1962 to 26 March 1967. He was preceded by British diplomat Sir Maurice Henry Dorman and succeeded after a coup d"état by Brigadier Andrew Juxon-Smith.
Lightfoot Boston Street in Freetown is named in his honor.
Lightfoot Boston"s image is featured on a 50 Leone coin issued by the Bank of Sierra Leone.
He was a member of the Creole ethnic group (descendant of freed slaves from the West Indies, United States and Great Britain landed in Freetown between 1792 and 1855).