Victoria Davies Randle

Victoria Matilda Davies Randle ( Davies; 1863 – 1920) was a socialite in Victorian Lagos Colony.

Life Victoria Davies' parents, Sarah Forbes Bonetta and James Pinson Labulo Davies, in 1862. Victoria Davies was the eldest child of James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos merchant, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta, an Egbado omoba who had been adopted as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. When she was born in 1863, she was named in honour of the Queen, who accepted to be her godmother as well. and like her mother, she also showed considerable intelligence. In 1890, Victoria married Dr. John Randle, a West African Scottish-trained medical doctor, and two hundred guests - including the governor of the Lagos Colony – were in attendance at the wedding at St. Paul's Church in Lagos. The service was officiated by the Reverend James Johnson and her wedding gown was a careful selection of the queen's, as her own mother's had been years before. Her final years were dedicated to the activities of the Ladies' Club, a group of upper-class women in Lagos. Her indirect descendants include the Nigerian-Ghanaian academic administrator Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh and his daughter, the Nigerian doctor and national heroine Ameyo Adadevoh.