Ignatius Sancho: Britain's First Black Voter

Today I want to explore the life and legacy of the first known black person to have met these requirements and to have thus voted in a British election. His name was Ignatius Sancho, let’s take a look… I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting! Please subscribe and click the bell icon to be updated about new videos. Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media: Instagram: katrina.marchant Twitter: @kat_marchant TikTok: @katrina_marchant Email: [email protected] Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ] SFX from https://freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated): Portrait of Ignatius Sancho by Thomas Gainsborough (1768). Held by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. NASA Visible Earth: Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography Map (2002). Portrait of John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1709). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu by Charles Jervas (1700s). Held in an unidentified private collection. Screenshots from https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c... Portrait of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, 4th Earl of Cardigan by William Beechey (18th century). Held in an unidentified private collection. Screenshot from: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ear... Screenshot from: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/re.... Portrait of Charles James Fox by Anton Hickel (1794). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph of the plaque to Ignatius Sancho, site of Montagu House. Taken by Paul W (2018). Quoted texts: Vincent Carretta, ODNB entry on Ignatius Sancho https://www-oxforddnb-com.lonlib.idm.... Harry Sherrin, “Ignatius Sancho: The First Black Briton to Vote in an Election” (2022) https://www.historyhit.com/ignatius-s... Reproduced in John Nichols and Samuel Bentley, “Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Anecdotes” (1814). Ignatius Sancho’s Obituary, The Gazetter (14th December 1780) Screenshots from: https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/...) Also consulted, were: Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.