John Macaulay Wilson was an African King, and one of the first Africans to receive a European medical training.
He was sent from Sierra Leone to Britain for medical training in either 1794 or 1796.
He returned to fill a number of roles, including Assistant Colonial Surgeon at the hospital in Leicester, Sierra Leone.
[1]: 62 Macaulay Wilson was the son of King George, chief of Kaffu Bullom,[2]: 42 and joined the household of Zachary Macaulay and later that of Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.
Following the death of his father, King George, he was elected King on 4 March 1827 in the presence of James Holman.