Eldred D. Jones

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020)[1] was a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic, known for his book Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He was a principal of Fourah Bay College.[2] Jones died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, around 1am on Saturday 21 March 2020.

Professor

Eldred D. Jones
BornEldred Durosimi Jones
(1925-01-06)6 January 1925
Freetown, British Sierra Leone
Died21 March 2020(2020-03-21) (aged 95)
Freetown, Sierra Leone
OccupationLiterary critic, university professor, university principal
NationalityBritish Subject, Sierra Leonean
EducationUniversity of Oxford and University of Durham

Background

Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 to Sierra Leone Creole people parents. On his maternal side, Jones descended from the Jamaican Maroons. Jones attended the CMS Grammar School, Freetown, and Fourah Bay College (1944–47), completing a Bachelor of Arts degree.[3] He studied in England at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1950-53) and the main campus of the University of Durham (1962).[1]

His critical works include Othello's Countrymen: A Study of the African in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Oxford University Press, 1985), The Writing of Wole Soyinka (Heinemann, 1973), and The Elizabethan Image of Africa (University of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1971).[1] Jones was also the author of The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags (James Currey, 2012) with the help of his wife Marjorie Jones.

References
  1. Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 537.
  2. "Birmingham University honours 2". Awareness Times. 24 April 2006. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
  3. Gradatues of the University. Durham: Durham University. 1948. p. 134.
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