Dr. Brycchan Carey of London's Kingston University Addresses Literary London Reading Group May 22

[Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) BrycchanCarey.com tells us: “The portrait of Ignatius Sancho was painted at Bath on 29 November 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788).”]

Dr. Brycchan Carey of London's Kingston University is a specialist on Ignatius Sancho, and has contributed research to the Ignatius Sancho page at AfriClassical.com. The Literary London Reading Group is an organization which began meeting monthly in March 2012. On April 30, 2012 it posted “Ignatius Sancho: An Eighteenth-Century African in London.”

April 30, 2012

“We’re pleased to confirm that Brycchan Carey will be introducing our next event ‘Ignatius Sancho: An Eighteenth-Century African in London.’ This session will take place on Tuesday, 22nd May from 6:00-7:30pm in Senate House Room 264.

“Ignatius Sancho’s (1729-1780) origins were African while his earliest memories were of Greenwich, where he was forced to work as a child slave. He persuaded the powerful Montagu family to employ him as their butler, before retiring to run a grocery shop in Westminster. This week we will be looking at a selection from Sancho’s letters and an extract from The Life of Ignatius Sancho – this material is available on Brycchan’s website - http://www.brycchancarey.com/sancho/index.htm

“We’re pleased to confirm that Brycchan Carey will be introducing our next event ‘Ignatius Sancho: An Eighteenth-Century African in London.’ This session will take place on Tuesday, 22nd May from 6:00-7:30pm in Senate House Room 264.”

Comment by email:

Dear Bill, Many thanks for this. Calling it an 'address' is a bit grand! I'll actually be leading a discussion among mostly graduate students. But I certainly appreciate the link.  Best wishes, Brycchan  [Dr. Brycchan  Carey]