Albert Whiggs Easmon

Albert Whiggs Easmon
BornAlbert Whiggs Easmon
(1855-06-30)30 June 1855
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Died21 May 1921(1921-05-21) (aged 65)
Freetown, Sierra Leone
OccupationChief Medical Officer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish Subject,
EducationWesleyan Boy's High School, Edinburgh University

Albert Whiggs Easmon (1865 – 21 May 1921) was a Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor and the half-brother of Dr John Farrell Easmon. Easmon was among the first group of Sierra Leoneans to qualify as a medical doctor after getting a degree from Edinburgh University.[1] He became the leading gynaecologist in Freetown, Sierra Leone and had an extensive private practice.[2]

  1. ^ Gates, Professor Henry Louis Jr.; Akyeampong, Professor Emmanuel; Niven, Mr Steven J. (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. ISBN 9780195382075.
  2. ^ Adell Patton, Jr, Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa, University Press of Florida, 1996, p. 176.