Daniel Wycliffe Sargent

Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (born July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. Sargent was listed as the Agent General of the Royal Niger Company 1889 in Akassa. His brother Edward Sargent was the English American Architect. Daniel Sargent had three wives. The second wife was the African chief's daughter Utsekanua born in Iddah, River Niger, West Africa 1856. They had one daughter, Ellen.