Hedley Powell Jacobs | |
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| Born | 15 March 1904 |
| Died | 10 October 1985 (aged 81) Kingston, Jamaica |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Co-founder of the People's National Party, 1938. |
Hedley Powell Jacobs OBE (15 March 1904 – 10 October 1985) was an English journalist, historian, writer, and socialist, who emigrated to Jamaica and was one of the founders of the People's National Party in 1938.
Hedley Powell Jacobs was born on 15 March 1904 in Halifax, Yorkshire, to Creswell Thomas Jacobs and Annie Jacobs. [1] His father was born in Abergavenny and worked as the company secretary in a gas plant manufacturing company. [2] He was christened in Elland, York, in April 1904. [3] He received his BA from the University of Oxford. [4]
He married Lily Elizabeth Thomas, the daughter of the reverend Charles R. G. Thomas, in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, in 1938. [5]
Jacobs emigrated to Jamaica in 1926. [6] He taught at Jamaica College. In 1936 he was admitted to The Linguistic Society of America with a specialism in Teutonic and Creole languages. [4]
He was the vice president of the National Reform Association (founded March 1938), a forerunner of the People's National Party, of which he was on the founding committee. [7]
In 1945, he was the first editor of The Jamaican Historical Review, journal of the Jamaican Historical Society, an organisation of which he was also president, arguing in his article "The Untapped Sources of Jamaican History" for the inclusion of linguistic and folklore material in the study of the Jamaican working class during slavery in order to avoid their history becoming a history of the ruling class. [8]
He was a justice of the peace and the general secretary of the Jamaica Imperial Association, later the Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs. [9]
In 1966 he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire for public services to literature and history. [10]
Jacobs died on 10 October 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica, from the effects of pneumonia and a bleeding duodenal ulcer. [11]
Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as they did so. With the prize money and loot from the raids, Morgan purchased three large sugar plantations on Jamaica.
The parishes of Jamaica are the main units of local government in Jamaica. They were created following the English Invasion of Jamaica in 1655. This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen parishes. These were retained after independence in 1962. They are grouped into three historic counties, which no longer have any administrative relevance. Every parish has a coast; none are landlocked.
James Sillett was an English still life and landscape artist. He showed himself to be one of the most versatile of the Norwich School of painters: although the great majority of his works were still lifes and landscapes, he was also a drawing master and a miniaturist. His botanical paintings illustrations have been praised for their accuracy and attention to detail. These and his still life paintings are considered to be his best work, with some experts ranking him with William Jackson Hooker, whose illustrations were both accurate and charming. Sillett's own accurate depictions of plants were often used for book illustrations. His paintings often have an academic style, influenced by the masters of the eighteenth century in a way that set him apart from his Norwich contemporaries. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1796 and 1837.
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Ludwig Friedrich Emil Piani (1817–1862) – a portrait and landscape German painter born in Coburg, duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Germany. As child he was a playmate of the Prince Albert, the future husband of Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1837 Emil Piani made a trip to the United States and then to Cuba residing in the later approximately till 1846. In 1841 his studio was on Obispo Street, Havana, probably where today is the Florida Hotel. During his stay in Cuba made several trips to nearby countries like Jamaica. In both islands he painted several portraits of notable persons and landscapes. In 1852 he returned to Coburg and after few years came back again to the Caribbean. He died in Curaçao in 1862.
Frank Cundall was an English art historian, editor and author, the son of the writer and publisher Joseph Cundall. He was closely involved in the administration of and produced the reports for a series of international exhibitions held in London in the 1880s, and catalogued the art library at the South Kensington Museum, later the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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