Death of King William Dappa Pepple of Bonny

King William Dappa Pepple died in 1866 at Ju Ju Town, where he had been living in diminished circumstances since his return to Bonny in 1861. He had never regained the power or economic base he possessed before his exile, having lost both his treasury (looted in the 1855 civil war) and his trade network. He was succeeded by his first son Prince George Pepple, who had been educated in England.