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HONOURED: Blue plaque erected in 2020 by English Heritage at Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5HF, City of Westminster
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A “LARGELY forgotten figure” in black British history was yesterday honoured with a plaque in a central London church.
Rector Lucy Winkett, of St James’s Piccadilly, said it was the church’s “duty and honour to mark the 250th anniversary” of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, one of the most prominent abolitionists of the time.
The Diocese of London said Cugoano’s exact dates of birth and death are unknown and the only verifiable place and date of his story was his baptism at the church on August 20 1773, a year after he was freed from slavery.
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