Isaac Oluwole

[2] A reason which may have led to his recommendation as a bishop after a leading radical candidate, James Johnson, complained about the neglect of indigenous control of the Church of Missionary Society.

He lost his father at the age of 13 and at the request of Townsend, he was placed under the care of Dr Harrison, a CMS missionary who was training other children in the region.

Davies and Obadiah Johnson, Oluwole was among the first students to obtain a bachelor's degree from the school in 1879 through the college's affiliation with the University of Durham.

After the death of Rev T. B. Macaulay, a son-in-law of Bishop Ajayi Crowther in 1879, the Church Missionary Society chose to elect Oluwole as the new principal of C.M.S.

Before taking the position, he was sent to England for further studies and spent one term at Monkton Combe School,[3] near Bath, Somerset which was founded in 1868 by the Revd Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone.

In 1893, he was consecrated as the Assistant Bishop of Western Equatorial Africa[4] at St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ludgate Hill on June 29, 1893 and was subsequently awarded a doctor of divinity degree from the University of Durham.

Photograph of Lagos Mission in 1885. Back row: W. Morgan, Chas. Phillips , J. White, Archdeacon Hamilton, Nathaniel Johnson, Isaac Oluwole, R.E. Willoughby Middle row: Rev. V.S. Wright, Mrs. Ingham, Bishop Ingham , Mrs Darwin Fox, Rev. James Johnson , Rev. J.W. Dickinson Front row: Rev. F.W.Dodd, Rev. W. Darwin Fox