Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon
Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon, OBE, popularly known as M. C. F. Easmon or "Charlie" (11 April 1890 – 2 May 1972), was a Sierra Leone Creole born in Accra in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), where his father John Farrell Easmon, a prominent Creole medical doctor, was working at the time. He belonged to the notable Easmon family of Sierra Leone, a Creole family of African-American descent. Background and early life Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon was born on 11 April 1890 in Accra, Gold Coast, to John Farrell Easmon, a Sierra Leonean of African-American and Irish descent and his wife, Kathleen Annette Easmon (née Smith), a Sierra Leonean of Jamaican Maroon, Fante, and English descent. Macormack Easmon descended from prominent Sierra Leonean families and had numerous ancestors who distinguished themselves in the civil service and medical field. Easmon was named "McCormack" or "MacCormac" after his great-grandfather John MacCormac, who was the uncle of William MacCormac. John Farrell Easmon (1856–1900) was a prominent Sierra Leonean medical doctor with a distinguished medical career, who was the first West African to serve as Chief Medical Officer of a British West African territory. The Easmon family are Sierra Leone Creoles who descend from the