Maurice King

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Sir Maurice Athelstan King KA (born January 1, 1936 ) is a former politician from Barbados of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).

Life

King was briefly ambassador to the United States in 1976 . After the re-election of the Democratic Labor Party in elections to the House of Assembly , he was on 29 May 1986 by Prime Minister Errol Barrow as Attorney General (Attorney General) for the first time appointed a government and has held this function even under Barrows successor Lloyd Erskine Sandiford up on the defeat of the DLP by the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) and the end of Sandiford's tenure on September 7, 1994.

In addition to his function as attorney general, King also took over the post of Foreign Minister from James Cameron Tudor as part of a cabinet reshuffle in 1989 and held this position until he was replaced by Branford Taitt in 1993.

For his longstanding political merits, King was knighted to the Knight of St Andrew of the Order of Barbados in 2009 and has since been named "Sir".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames: KIN-LYV at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME King, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Sir Maurice Athelstan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Barbadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1936