Alfred Saker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Saker

British missionary

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1814

Place of Birth: Wrotham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Mar-1880

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British missionary of the London Baptist Missionary Society.
In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons.
According to the record, he bought land from indigenous Bimbia chiefs, established a seaside settlement christened Victoria after the reigning British Empress.
The settlement was renamed Limbe by decree in 1982 by President Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroun and reverted by counter-decree to Victoria in 2017 by Southern Cameroons Anglophone nationalists led by President SisiKou Ayuk Tabe Julius in honour of Rev.
Saker's unimpeachable historic legacy and 56 years of independence from Great Britain.
Alfred Saker wished to be known under no other designation than a "Missionary to Africa".He was a leader of the early British Baptist missionaries that established churches on Fernando Po Island and Cameroon.
His 1844-1876 mission work included translation - between 1862 and 1872 - of the Bible into the Duala language.