"About the middle of last century my father's eldest uncle, William Allen Vivour, returned to Nigeria (Lagos) and set up his business in Fernando Po, With his success, he educated his two brothers in Europe, Including the doctor, and sustained his sisters in Freetown comfortably."[REF] .
Jacob Vivour went on to study law at Christ Church college, Oxford University, obtaining his law degree in 1887, then went to Edinburgh where he studied medicine, and duly qualified as a doctor in 1895, returning home to practice in Eastern Nigeria [REF].