Napoleon Barleycorn

Napoleon Barleycorn

Napolean Barleycorn, a Primitive Methodist missionary in Spanish Guinea, a Fernandino of Igbo descent, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, Scotland. One of his sons was the well-known writer of the first Bube primer William Napolean Barleycorn.

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