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Sara Forbes Bonetta

1843 - 1880

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Sarah Forbes Bonetta or Sally Forbes Bonetta, (born Aina or Ina; c. 1843 – 15 August 1880), was ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She was believed to have been a titled member of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa, who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey as a child, and was later enslaved by King Ghezo of Dahomey. She was given by Ghezo as a "gift" to Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sara Forbes Bonetta is the 568th most popular nobleman (up from 1,267th in 2019). (up from 4,036th in 2019)

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Among noblemen, Sara Forbes Bonetta ranks 568 out of 1,415. Before her are Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, and Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans. After her are Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Alan III, Duke of Brittany, Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, William, Duke of Brunswick, and Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.

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Among people born in 1843, Sara Forbes Bonetta ranks 44. Before her are Robert Todd Lincoln, Odoardo Beccari, Eugene de Blaas, Shō Tai, Julio Argentino Roca, and Kitty Lange Kielland. After her are Elizabeth Stride, Pedro Américo, Otto Kuntze, Bernhard Förster, Adolf Mayer, and Johannes Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1880, Sara Forbes Bonetta ranks 18. Before her are James Craig Watson, Nell Arthur, Léon Cogniet, Bettino Ricasoli, Ole Bull, and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. After her are Édouard Séguin, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, John Sutter, Arnold Ruge, Constantin Hansen, and Oliver Winchester.

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