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Dr. Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio (25 June 1859 or 1863 – 14 September 1924) was a physician and politician in the Gold Coast, the first Ghanaian to obtain the degree of M.D.〔Michael R. Doortmont, ''The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony'', Brill, 2005, p. 347.〕 ==Life== Benjamin Quartey-Papafio was born into a leading Accra family: his parents were ''Akwashotse'' Chief William Quartey-Papafio, also known as Nii Kwatei or "Old Papafio", and Momo Omedru, a businesswoman from Gbese (Dutch Accra). He was educated at the C.M.S. Grammar School and Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone, before travelling to study in Britain. Gaining a B.A. degree from Durham University, he entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1882, earning his M.B. and M.Ch. in 1886 and becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.〔 Returning to the Gold Coast, he was a medical officer for the Gold Coast Government Service from 1888 until 1905, and was also in private practice.〔 Quartey-Papafio had three children by Hannah Maria Ekua Duncan, of a Cape Coast/Elmina family; on 8 October 1896 at St Bartholomew's Church in Smithfield, London, he married Eliza Sabina Meyer,〔Jeffrey Green, (''Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life'' ), Routledge, 2015, p. 90.〕 daughter of Richard Meyer of Accra, and the couple had six children.〔Karin Barber, ''Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self'', Indiana University Press, 2006, p. 316. ISBN 978-0253218438.〕〔''The Times'', 19 October 1896.〕 A member of the Accra Town Council from 1909 to 1912,〔 he was a member of the 1911 deputation to London that protested the Forest Bill.〔Jeffrey P. Green, ''Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain, 1901-1914'', Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 147.〕 He was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council from 1919 to 1924.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Quartey-Papafio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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