About Eldred D. Jones
Lived 1925 – 2020 (aged 95). Eldred D. Jones was a Sierra Leonean linguist, writer, literary scholar, philologist, scholar of English and literary critic.
Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020) 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. Jones died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Saturday, 21 March 2020.
Biography Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 to Sierra Leone Creole parents. On his maternal side, Jones descended from the Jamaican Maroons and an Irish great-grandfather. Jones attended the CMS Grammar School, Freetown, and Fourah Bay College (1944–47), completing a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied in England at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1950–53) and the main campus of the University of Durham (1962).
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).
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Sierra Leonean academic (1925-2020)
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Eldred D. Jones was born on 5 January 1925 in Freetown.
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Eldred D. Jones died on 21 March 2020 in Freetown.
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Eldred D. Jones was a linguist, writer, literary scholar, philologist, scholar of English and literary critic.
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Eldred D. Jones was Sierra Leonean.
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