Candido Da Rocha aside being the first millionaire in Nigerian, was among the rich men that used to take their clothes to Britain for laundry.

Candido, son of a slave returnee, Joao Esan Da Rocha, returned from Brazil and established a business firm. Candido Da Rocha was born in 1860 in Bahia, Brazil, and died on 11th March, 1959.
Candido Da Rocha was a native of Ilesha, Lagos State. His mother was Angelica Da Rocha, while his father, Joao Esan Da Rocha who was taken as a slave when he was 10 years old in the year 1840 to Brazil. On getting freed, Joao Esan returned to Nigeria, and Candido was registered to CMS Grammar School in Lagos, where he attended alongside Herbert Macaulay and Isaac Oluwole. Candido had a brother who was among the earliest Nigerian Doctors to be trained by the British, Moses Da Rocha.

Multilingual Candido was living in his father’s Water House at Kakawa avenue, in Lagos. The Water House was popularly known as the first water... https://54history.com/candido-da-rocha-nigerias-first-millionaire/