Nigerian Christening at St. Martin-In-The-Fields Photographed after the christening ceremony at St. Martin-in-the-Fields yesterday. Left, the godfather, Oladigbolu-Coker, Chief Aerodynamist at Heston Aircraft Ltd., Hounslow; holding baby, the godmother, Mrs. Gladys Smith; and on right Chief Lapido Solanke. Using both water from the church font and from the river Niger, the christening ceremony was held yesterday at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London of the six-weeks-old son of the Lapido Solanke, chief of the 4,000,000 strong Yoruba tribe of Nigeria. The boy was christened Olagbaleken ("A person whose honour and dignity cover the whole world"), and later a Nigerian ceremony was held at South Villas, Camden Street, N.W. December 03, 1951. (Photo by Fox Photos).