1. Sir John Jeremie was a British judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of Saint Lucia and Governor of Sierra Leone.
15 Facts About John Jeremie
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John Jeremie was given an award in 1836 for advancing "negro freedom" after accusing the judges in Mauritius of bias.
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John Jeremie understood that colour prejudice and slavery were different problems.
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John Jeremie went to Blundell's School in Devon before studying law in Dijon, France.
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John Jeremie was called to the bar in his home island where he was successful, and published a posthumous legal work of his father's.
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The issue of slavery continued to be a subject that John Jeremie was associated with throughout his life.
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John Jeremie wrote four essays on Colonial Slavery pointing out the problems of slave communities and the improvements made in their conditions in Saint Lucia.
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John Jeremie was appointed the procureur and advocate general of the island of Mauritius in 1832, but this was a very difficult appointment.
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John Jeremie arrived there in June 1832, and the hostility to him as a known abolitionist was very difficult to handle.
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John Jeremie arrived again the following year but there were continued charges about his and others' behaviour.
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John Jeremie was in London to attend the World's anti-slavery convention on 12 June 1840.
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John Jeremie was appointed Governor of Sierra Leone on 15 October 1840 which was both an honour and a health risk.
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John Jeremie's confidence is apparent in the quotation above where he notes that he survived six years in Ceylon and outlived the other judges appointed to the Supreme Court there.
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John Jeremie was knighted on 15 November 1840, before leaving for Africa.
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John Jeremie died at Port Loko in Sierra Leone of a fever after only a few months in Africa.