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Saint Thomas, once known as Saint Thomas in the East, is a suburban parish situated at the south eastern end of Jamaica, within the county of Surrey. It is the birthplace of the Right Honourable Paul Bogle, designated in 1969 as one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes. Morant Bay, its chief town and capital, is the site of the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865, of which Bogle was a leader.
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Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast. It is situated to the north of St Thomas and to the east of St Mary in Surrey County. It is one of the rural areas of Jamaica, containing part of the Blue Mountains, where the Jamaican Maroon communities of Moore Town and Charles Town, Jamaica are located.
St. James is a suburban parish, located on the north-west end of the island of Jamaica in the county of Cornwall. Its capital is Montego Bay. Montego Bay was officially named the second city of Jamaica, behind Kingston, in 1981, although Montego Bay became a city in 1980 through an act of the Jamaican Parliament. The parish is the birthplace of the Right Excellent Samuel Sharpe, one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes.
George William Gordon was a wealthy mixed-race Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East Parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial government and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre.
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Simon Watson Taylor was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Devizes in Wiltshire from 1857 to 1859.
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Morant Bay High School in Morant Bay, St Thomas, Jamaica was founded in 1961.
George Watson-Taylor (1771–1841), of Cavendish Square, Middlesex and Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire, was an English sugar planter, slave owner and politician.
Sir John Taylor FRS was a fellow of the Royal Society who was created a baronet of Lysson Hall in Jamaica. He lived in London but he died in Jamaica.
Saint David Parish was one of the historic parishes of Jamaica created following colonisation of the island by the British. It was in the east of the island in Surrey County
Simon Taylor was a Scottish slave owner, the wealthiest sugar planter in the Colony of Jamaica, and one of the wealthiest men ever to have lived in the British Empire. Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, who was Governor of Jamaica between 1802-6, described Taylor as "the richest proprietor in the island". At the time of his death, Taylor's estate was estimated at probably worth over £1 million. His brother was Sir John Taylor.
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- 1 2 Jemmott, Dr Jenny. "PARISH HISTORY PROJECT: A HISTORY OF ST. THOMAS" (PDF). JN FOUNDATION. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
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- ↑ "Jamaica Observer Limited". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 25 May 2020.