CROWTHER, SAMUEL ADJAI African missionary-bishop, was born in Ochugu in the Yoruba country, West Africa, and was sold into slavery in 1821. Next year he was rescued, with many other captives, by H.M. ship "Myrmidon," and was landed at Sierra Leone. Educated there in a missionary school, he became a teacher and afterwards missionary on the Niger. In 1842 he entered the Church Missionary College in London, and in June 1843 was ordained by Bishop Blomfield. Returning to Africa, he worked amongst his own people and afterwards at Abeokuta. Here he devoted himself to the preparation of school books, and the translation of the Bible and Prayer-Book into Yoruba and other dialects. In 1864 he was consecrated first bishop of the Niger territories. Crowther died of paralysis on Dec. 31, 1891.