Henry Milton Taylor

Sir Henry Milton Taylor JP (born November 4, 1903 in Clarence Town , Long Island , Bahamas , † February 14, 1994 ) was a Bahamas politician of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), who was Governor General of the Bahamas between 1988 and 1992 .

Life

Teacher, MP and Chairman of the PLP

Taylor completed a correspondence course in London after attending public schools in Long Island and after graduating in 1924 took up a position as a teacher at the School of Roses in Long Island. After teaching at a school in Pompey Bay on Acklins Island between 1925 and 1926 , he was a teacher at a school in Clarence Town from 1933 to 1933.

In the 1949 elections he was elected for the first time in the constituency of Long Island-Ragged Island as a member of the House of Assembly and in November 1953 was one of the founders of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), the country's first unified political party. Subsequently, between 1953 and 1963, he was elected annually as chairman of the PLP by the National General Council of the party without any opposing candidates.

In July 1956 Taylor played a key role in the choice of the future in the National General Council of the PLP Prime Minister , Lynden Pindling , the first chairman of the fraction (Parliamentary leader) of the party in the House of Assembly. He himself had lost after a defeat in the general election in the House of Assembly.

In that year he was also head of a delegation in London consisting of himself, Lynden O. Pindling and the later Governor General Milo B. Butler, which dealt with the political situation in the former British Crown Colony .

In the elections of May 20, 1960, he ran successfully in the constituency of the Eastern District of New Providence for re-election to the House of Assembly and received more votes than any other candidate in any previous election in the Bahamas.

Commitment to women's suffrage and tourism as well as honorary chairman of the PLP

A few months later, in November 1960, he was again head of a delegation for talks in London, this time campaigning for women's suffrage . Other members of the delegation were Doris Johnson , later from 1968 to 1973 as Minister of Transport, first female member of the government of the Bahamas, and then from 1973 to 1979 as the first woman to be President of the Senate , and the PLP advisor Eugenia Lockhart . Shortly after the delegation returned, women's rights were introduced so that women could take part in the 1962 general election for the first time.

Taylor was a member of the Development Tourism Board between 1961 and 1962 and, as such, traveled with the chairman of that body to Great Britain and Europe to promote tourism in the Bahamas.

After he resigned as party chairman in 1963, he became honorary chairman of the PLP for life. In 1966 he was one of the guests at the receptions on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's first state visit to the Bahamas. He then largely withdrew from political life and lived in Florida between 1968 and 1978 , where he began writing his memoirs.

Deputy Governor General and Governor General of the Bahamas

After his return to the Bahamas, Taylor was honored in November 1978 at the PLP Silver Jubilee for his services in founding the party. In November 1979 he was appointed by the government to publish the Hansard , the official parliamentary records.

For his many years of service as part of Taylor was New Years Honor's List on 1 January 1980 by Queen Elizabeth II. To Knight Bachelor beaten and led from then the name suffix "Sir". The official award took place by the monarch on July 25, 1980 in Buckingham Palace .

On July 24, 1981, he was first appointed Deputy Governor General, as then incumbent Gerald Christopher Cash was in Great Britain at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales to Diana Spencer . In the following years he took over the office of deputy on several other occasions when Cash was outside the country.

After the resignation of Gerald Christopher Cash, Taylor was appointed acting Governor General of the Bahamas on June 25, 1988 and sworn in a day later on June 26, 1988 by the President of the Supreme Court (Chief Justice) Telford Georges .

Almost three years later Taylor was finally introduced to the office of Governor General on April 8, 1991 by the now Chief Justice, Joaquim Gonsalves-Sabola , making him the third Bahamian to hold this office after Gerald Christopher Cash and Milo B. Butler . He held the office of Governor General until January 1, 1992 and then on January 2, 1992 Clifford Darling , who was formerly Minister of Labor and National Insurance and Speaker of the House of Assembly.

Taylor, who died less than five weeks after his retirement, was married twice and had four daughters.

Web links

• Henry Taylor (bahamasnationalarchives.bs)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inaccuracies and Misinformation did distort history . In: The Nassau Guardian, December 14, 2011
2. ↑ Doris Johnson ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (womensuffragebahamas.com) 
3. ↑ Eugenia Lockhart ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (womensuffragebahamas.com)