Background
Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole was born at Number. The Wellesley-Cole family had three other children including Doctor Irene Ighodaro who was the first West African woman to qualify as a medical doctor.
medical doctor Surgeons of England
Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole was born at Number. The Wellesley-Cole family had three other children including Doctor Irene Ighodaro who was the first West African woman to qualify as a medical doctor.
Wellesley-Cole was educated at the Government Model School in Freetown, Sierra Leone where he was taught by teachers such as William Campbell. Following the completion of his primary education, Wellesley-Cole was enrolled as the first student of the Government Model Secondary School, currently known as Prince of Wales Secondary School. Wellesley-Cole completed his studies at Prince of Wales and passed the Cambridge Entrance Certification in 1925.
Background and Early The Wellesley-Coles were a Sierra Leone Creole family of partial Caribbean origin who also descended from Wolof and Yoruba Liberated African ancestors. The Okrafo-Smart family was another prominent Creole family largely of Igbo Liberated African descent. Wilfred Cole was a successful engineer who was the first Sierra Leonean to serve as an assistant for the Public Water Works Department in Freetown.
The Wellesley-Cole family was a middle-class Creole family, and Robert Wellesley-Cole grew up in a household of relative comfort and privilege.
Academic Wellesley-Cole obtained Upper-second class honours from Fourah Bay College and proceeded to attend Newcastle University Medical School. Medical Due to discrimination in the West African Medical Service, Wellesley-Cole mainly practiced in the United Kingdom, although he did also practice in Ibadan, Nigeria and in his natal homeland of Sierra Leone.
Following Sierra Leone"s Independence on April 27, 1961, then Prime Minister Milton Margai, offered Wellesley-Cole the position of senior medical officer
Wellesley-Cole was the first West African to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.