William Barleycorn

William N. Barleycorn
Born1848 (1848)
Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea
Died1925 (aged 76–77)
OccupationOrdained Missionary, Author, Interpreter, Schoolmaster, Native Assistant Minister
NationalitySpanish Guinean
Periodlate 19th - early 20th century

William Napoleon Barleycorn (1848–1925), born in Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea and a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po (now known as Bioko) in Africa in the early 1880s. From there, he travelled to Edinburgh University.

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