Charles Francis Hutchison Explained

Charles Francis Hutchison (1879, Cape Coast - ca. 1940, Lagos) was a surveyor and scholar active in the British Gold Coast.^[1]

Hutchison was born with varied African, Dutch, and Scottish ancestors. He was a great-great-grandson Carel Hendrik Bartels (1792 – 1850).^[2]

Notes and References

1. Akurang-Parry . Kwabena O. . Review of The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast . The International Journal of African Historical Studies . 2006 . 39 . 2 . 367–370 . 0361-7882.
2. Book: Doortmont . Michel . The pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : a collective biography of elite society in the Gold Coast Colony . 2005 . Brill . Leiden . 90-04-14097-2 .