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Ignatius Sancho was born on a , 2004 ). An attempt at a career as an actor, playing roles in '' Othello '' and '' Oroonoko '', failed. In and of British forces in the American Revolutionary War . Ignatius Sancho died from the effects of Gout on 14 December 1780, and became the first African to be given an obituary in the British press.Ibid.. Two years later Frances Crewe arranged for his letters to be published, appearing as the two-volume ''The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African''. The book sold very well, and his widow received over £500 in royalties. A plaque to Sancho was unveiled on June 15 2007 by Nick Raynsford, MP for Greenwich. Situated on the remaining wall of Montague House on the south west boundary of Greenwich Park , it was funded by Friends of Greenwich Park to commemorate the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807. Sancho was once butler in Montague House. NOTES Friends of Greenwich Park newsletter. Summer 2007. EXTERNAL LINKS
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