Ernest James Hayford | |
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| Born | 23 April 1858 |
| Died | 8 August 1913 (aged 55) London, U.K. |
| Occupation(s) | Physician and lawyer |
| Parent(s) | Joseph de Graft Hayford and Mary Brew |
| Relatives | J. E. Casely Hayford (brother) |
Ernest James Hayford, MD, MRCP(Eng), LRCP, BL (23 April 1858, Anomabu – 6 August 1913, London) was a physician and lawyer in the Gold Coast.[1][2] He was the second African in the Gold Coast to become an orthodox medical doctor after Benjamin Quartey-Papafio.[1][2]
- ^ a b 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. 251
- ^ a b Tetty, Charles (1985). "Medical Practitioners of African Descent in Colonial Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 18 (1): 139–144. doi:10.2307/217977. JSTOR 217977. PMID 11617203. S2CID 7298703.