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Hugh Springer

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His Excellency The Most Excellent Sir
Hugh Springer
GCMG CBE
4th Governor-General of Barbados
In office
24 February 1984 – 6 June 1990
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Bernard St. John
Errol Barrow
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
Preceded byDeighton Lisle Ward
Succeeded byNita Barrow
Personal details
Born(1913-06-22)22 June 1913
Saint Michael, British Windward Islands (present day Barbados)
Died14 April 1994(1994-04-14) (aged 80)
Bridgetown, Barbados
SpouseDorothy Gittens
Alma materHarrison College
Hertford College, Oxford

Sir Hugh Worrell Springer GCMG CBE[1] (22 June 1913 – 14 April 1994)[2] was the organiser and first general secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union, and Barbados' fourth governor-general.[3] He was a lawyer, politician and public servant.[4] By an act of Parliament in 1998, Springer was named as one of the eleven National Heroes of Barbados.[5]

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Order of St Michael and St George

Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III.

Barbados Workers' Union

Barbados Workers' Union

The Barbados Workers' Union is a trade union in Barbados.

Parliament of Barbados

Parliament of Barbados

The Parliament of Barbados is the national legislature of Barbados. It is accorded legislative supremacy by Chapter V of the Constitution of Barbados. The Parliament is bicameral in composition and is formally made up of two houses, an appointed Senate and an elected House of Assembly, as well as the President of Barbados who is indirectly elected by both. Both houses sit in separate chambers in the Parliament Buildings, in the national capital Bridgetown in Saint Michael.

Early life and education

Springer was educated at Harrison College in Bridgetown, Barbados. Upon receiving a Barbados Scholarship in Classics, Springer studied Greek as an undergraduate at Hertford College, University of Oxford, receiving a BA in 1936.[6]

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Harrison College (Barbados)

Harrison College (Barbados)

Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school in Bridgetown, Barbados. Founded in 1733, the school takes its name from Thomas Harrison, a Bridgetown merchant, who intended it to serve as "A Public and Free School for the poor and indigent boys of the parish".

Bridgetown

Bridgetown

Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common reference is simply "Town". As of 2014, its metropolitan population stands at roughly 110,000.

Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of 432 km2 (167 sq mi) and has a population of about 287,000. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.

Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college is known for its iconic bridge, the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas.

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two English ancient universities share many common features and are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.

Career

Law and politics

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1938, and subsequently returned to Barbados. He practised law in Barbados from 1938 to 1947.[6]

He co-founded the Progressive League with the barrister Grantley Adams. As General Secretary of the League, Springer transformed it into two initially closely related organisations, the Barbados Labour Party and the Barbados Workers' Union. From 1940 to 1947 he was the General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party and also General Secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union.[4][6] In 1940 he was elected to the House of Assembly.[6]

Higher education

Springer perceived Higher Education as vitally important for achieving regional cooperation and integration. He had previously sought employment in education in London in the 1930s, but was rejected on the basis of his ethnicity.[6] In 1938 he taught Classics temporarily at Codrington College.[6] He was a member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the West Indies in the 1950s and sat on the Provisional Council of the University College at Kingston which was founded as an outcome of the commission.[6] In 1947 resigned from the Cabinet of Barbados and took up the position as the Registrar of the University College of West Indies, which he held until 1963, when he became Director until 1966.[6]

International politics

Following the collapse of the Federation of the West Indies in 1962, Springer dedicated time to considering regional politics.[6] He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship of the Harvard Centre for International Affairs where he completed his 1962 book Reflections on the Failure of the First West Indian Federation. During 1962-63 he was a Senior Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.[6] On returning to Barbados, Springer was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Education at the University of the West Indies.[6]

Commonwealth and international education

Springer dedicated much of the period from 1964–84 to the areas of commonwealth and international education. He was Assistant Secretary General (Education) at the Commonwealth Secretariat (1966–1970), and Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (1970–1980), and served as a Director of the United World Colleges (1978–1990).[6]

He was appointed Governor-General of Barbados in 1984, a position which he held until he retired due to ill-health in 1990.[4]

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Inner Temple

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Grantley Herbert Adams

Grantley Herbert Adams

Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC was a Barbadian politician. He served as the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1953 to 1958 and then became the first and only prime minister of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962. He was a founder of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), and he was named in 1998 as one of the National Heroes of Barbados.

Barbados Labour Party

Barbados Labour Party

The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. Led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, it is the governing party of Barbados and the sole ruling party in the House of Assembly of Barbados, holding 30 out of 30 seats. The BLP was elected to government on 25 May 2018 after a decade in opposition, with Mottley becoming the country's first female prime minister. The party originally won all of the seats in the House of Assembly, but Bishop Joseph Atherley, the MP for St. Michael West, became an independent MP and the leader of the opposition on 2 June 2018. The party won all 30 seats in the 2022 general election.

Barbados Workers' Union

Barbados Workers' Union

The Barbados Workers' Union is a trade union in Barbados.

House of Assembly of Barbados

House of Assembly of Barbados

The House of Assembly of Barbados is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. It has 30 Members of Parliament (MPs), who are directly elected in single member constituencies using the simple-majority system for a term of five years. The House of Assembly sits roughly 40–45 days a year and is presided over by a Speaker.

Codrington College

Codrington College

Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John, Barbados now affiliated with the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. It is one of the oldest Anglican theological colleges in the Americas. It was affiliated to the University of Durham from 1875 to 1965.

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows. It has no undergraduate members, but each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.

Commonwealth Secretariat

Commonwealth Secretariat

The Commonwealth Secretariat is the main intergovernmental agency and central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is responsible for facilitating co-operation between members; organising meetings, including the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM); assisting and advising on policy development; and providing assistance to countries in implementing the decisions and policies of the Commonwealth.

Association of Commonwealth Universities

Association of Commonwealth Universities

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) was established in 1913, and has over 500 member institutions in over 50 countries across the Commonwealth. The ACU is the world's oldest international network of universities. Its mission is to promote and support excellence in higher education for the benefit of individuals and societies throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. It has a combined population of 3 billion, mainly under the age of 30, in Commonwealth countries.

United World Colleges

United World Colleges

United World Colleges (UWC) is an international network of schools and educational programmes with the shared aim of "making education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." The organization was founded on the principles of German educator Kurt Hahn in 1962 to promote intercultural understanding.

Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of 432 km2 (167 sq mi) and has a population of about 287,000. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.

Honors

Springer received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1976,[7] and was elected as an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford in 1974 and All Souls College in 1988,[8][6] where a portrait of Hugh Springer by Hector Whistler is now on display in the hall of the College.

Springer received a Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of New Brunswick in 1980.[9]

In 1998, Hugh Springer was named as one of the ten Barbadian National Heroes, designated by the Order of National Heroes Act.[10] A biography of Hugh Springer was published in 2008, authored by Kean H. W. Springer.[11] A commemorative stamp of Hugh Springer was issued in 2016 as part of ‘The Builders of Barbados' series.[12]

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Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt University

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Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college is known for its iconic bridge, the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas.

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows. It has no undergraduate members, but each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.

Hector Whistler

Hector Whistler

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University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North America. UNB was founded by a group of seven Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution.

Selected publications

Springer, H.W. 1962. Reflections of the Failure of the First West Indian Federation.

Springer, H. W. 1967 "University-Government Relationships in the West Indies ", in University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Collected Seminar Papers on Relations between Governments and Universities (London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Source: "Hugh Springer", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 10th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Springer.

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References
  1. ^ "No. 49669". The London Gazette. 9 March 1984. p. 3453.
  2. ^ "Sir Hugh Springer". Obituaries. The Times. No. 64933. London. 20 April 1994. p. 19.
  3. ^ Hugh Springer, Rulers.org
  4. ^ a b c Oxford, University of. "Portraying Diversity at Oxford, Equality and Diversity". www.admin.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  5. ^ Parliament of Barbados (2009). "Parliament's History". Barbadosparliament.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Obituary: Sir Hugh Springer". The Independent. 1994-05-03. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  7. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  8. ^ Schreuder, Deryck M. (3 October 2013). Universities for a New World: Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013. ISBN 9788132117780.
  9. ^ "Pomp and Circumstance | Graduation Ceremonies 1828 - Present". graduations.lib.unb.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  10. ^ "Barbados National Heroes | Barbados.org". barbados.org. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  11. ^ W., Springer, Kean H. (2013). Truly a gentleman : the Right Excellent Sir Hugh Worrell Springer (Epub ed.). Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers. ISBN 9789766377038. OCLC 760141779.
  12. ^ "The Builders of Barbados - new definitive stamps January 2016 | Barbados Stamps". www.barbadosstamps.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
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