Life
James Bannerman was born a native of the Gold Coast in 1790 to a Fanti mother and a Scottish father. Bannerman was educated in the Gold Coast and in Europe. Returning to the Gold Coast as a merchant, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and was Civil Commandant of Christiansborg, Accra from 1850 to 1857. He succeeded Governor Winniett, who had died, as Lieutenant-Governor of the colony, and helped to introduce the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast.
He married an Ashanti princess, Yaa Hom or Yeboah, daughter of Osei Bonsu, who was taken prisoner at the Battle of Katamanso in 1826. Together they had six children including Charles, Edmund and James Junior. Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr. was a grandson, and Charles Edward Woolhouse Bannerman a great-grandson.
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