English naval officer who in 1791 was involved with a failed attempt to found a colony in Sierra Leone, an experience described in African Memoranda (1805).

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Philip Beaver:

African Memoranda: relative to an Attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792: with a Brief Notice of the Neighbouring Tribes, Soil, Productions, &c. and some Observations on the Facility of colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation and the Introduction of Letters and Religion to its Inhabitants, but more particularly as the Means of gradually abolishing African Slavery .