the Wesleyan Church in 1835. He became a lay preacher in 1842 and also ran a Sunday school. He is recorded to have made the largest donation of all contributors at an 1864 church celebration. In 1864, at Ezzidio's request, a white superintendent was sent from England to supervise the Wesleyan mission. This superintendent, Benjamin Tregaskis, was a Nonconformist, strongly sectarian, and opposed to the interdenominational cooperation Ezzidio and others in the church had previously supported. Trebaskis feuded with Ezzidio over church policy until the latter's death in October 1872. Honours In 2007, in a campaign to Africanise British street names, the government of Freetown announced plans to rename Howe Street after Ezzidio. References 1810 births 1872 deaths 19th-century slaves Mayors of Freetown Sierra Leonean businesspeople People from Niger State Sierra Leonean Methodists Converts to Methodism Sierra Leone Creole people 19th-century Nigerian people Nigerian slaves Nigerian emigrants to Sierra Leone Kidnapped Nigerian children