page_title: Christian Cole (barrister)
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Cole (barrister)
caption_attribution_description: &lt;a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-10-11-new-plaque-celebrates-oxfords-first-black-student-1870s" rel="nofollow"&gt;Christian Cole&lt;/a&gt; (d. 1885), the first black African to be awarded an Oxford degree and to practise law in an English court was made a member of University College Oxford in 1877 &lt;a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7527168,-1.2510297,3a,75y,186.79h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1su-FRo8wBmazFiulUQwQfSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow"&gt;Logic Lane&lt;/a&gt;, Oxford OX1 4EX Plaque erected 14 October 2017 by University College Oxford and Black Oxford: Untold Stories (This image represents an Open Plaques entry)
context_page_description: Christian Frederick Cole was a Sierra Leone Creole lawyer and the first African barrister to practise in the English courts. Originally from Sierra Leone, then a British colony, he was the first black graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied as a non-collegiate student and then at University College.
context_section_description: Christian Frederick Cole (1852 – 1885) was a Sierra Leone Creole lawyer and the first African barrister to practise in the English courts. Originally from Sierra Leone, then a British colony, he was the first black graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied as a non-collegiate student and then at University College.
caption: The plaque commemorating Christian Cole in Logic Lane
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