Joseph Lambert Eustace

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Sir Joseph Lambert Eustace GCMG , GCVO (born February 28, 1908 , † November 2, 1996 ) was a politician of the St. Vincent Labor Party (SVLP), who was Governor General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines between 1985 and 1988 .

Life

Eustace, the second son of Reynold Lambert Eustace and Beatrice St. Hilaire, founded the Intermediate School together with his older brother John Parmenas Eustace after attending school in November 1926 , at which he taught himself in 1932. He then took a job as a teacher at the St. Vincent Boys Grammar School and was later between 1950 and 1959 managing director of the Government Cotton Ginnery in Richmond , before it burned down in 1959 and was not rebuilt. He then worked as an entrepreneur between 1960 and 1967 and ran an oil and soap factory and a cotton decapsulation plant in Montrose .

1963 Eustace joined the 1955 by Robert Milton Cato co-founded and led St. Vincent Labor Party (SVLP) as a member of and was for this in the elections in 1964 in the constituency of South Leward first time a member of the Assembly House ( House of Assembly ) elected. After three years in the opposition , the SVLP won the 1967 elections. Subsequently, in May 1967 he was appointed Minister for Social Services and Education by Robert Milton Cato, who was now Chief Minister . After Cato became the first Prime Minister on October 27, 1969, Eustace took over the post of Minister of Education and Minister of Health after a cabinet reshuffle and held them until 1970. On May 4, 1972, he became Speaker of the House of Assembly and was President of Parliament until his Resignation on September 23, 1974.

On February 28, 1985, Eustace Sydney Gun-Munro took over as Governor General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and remained in this function until February 29, 1988, after which Henry Harvey Williams took over the office provisionally. On July 30, 1985 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". On October 27, 1985, he was also awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GVO).

Eustace has been married twice. His first marriage was Elaine Harold in 1941, who died shortly after the birth of their daughter Elaine Marjorie Delores Eustace in 1942. His second marriage was in 1947 with Faustina Gatherer. From this marriage the son Reynold Lambert Mountbatten Eustace, born in 1948, and the daughter Margaret-Ann Eustace, born in 1952, emerged.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Governors-general (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 50227, HMSO, London, August 13, 1985, p. 11155 ( PDF , accessed April 20, 2017, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 50333, HMSO, London, November 29, 1985, p. 16780 ( PDF , accessed April 20, 2017, English).
personal data
SURNAME Eustace, Joseph Lambert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vincentian Governor General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1908
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1996