Vincent Homer McFarlane

Sir Vincent Homer McFarlane (born March 4, 1914 in Brooklyn , † March 11, 2006 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Jamaican diplomat .

Life

Vincent Homer McFarlane was the son of Clarabel Thomasine Blair and Samuel Baker McFarlane. From 1924 to 1931 he attended Cornwall College in Montego Bay , Jamaica . From 1931 to 1934 he was employed by the Bank of Nova Scotia , in Savanna-la-Mar . In 1934 he entered the service of the colonial authority. On August 9, 1944, he married Alice Jean McNeil-Smith. Their daughter was named Hilary Anne, their son John Vincent. From 1947 to 1948 he completed the Overseas Officers course at Rhodes House in Oxford and at the University of London . From 1950 to 1953 he was an administrative officer in the colonial authority. In 1953 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal . From 1954 to 1957 he was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture & Lands in Kingston , Jamaica. From 1956 to 1957 he was a Fellow of the Economic Development Institute in Washington, DC In 1957 he was accepted into the Order of the British Empire and promoted to Commander Companion on New Year's Eve 1960. In 1962 he was decorated with the Jamaican Independence Medal. On August 6, 1962, he was promoted to Foreign Office Envoy to Washington, DC, where he opened and ran the Jamaican Embassy as Chargé d'affaires. From 1965 to 1969 he was High Commissioner in Ottawa . In 1969 he was ambassador to Panama City. From 1970 to 1972 he was ambassador in Bonn and was also accredited in Brussels and The Hague . On March 24, 1971, he was received by the Luxembourg Grand Duke Jean to receive his letter of accreditation issued by Elizabeth II . In 1972 he was permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Permanent Secretary of State in the Foreign Ministry).

literature

• Late Ambassador Vincent McFarlane hailed as distinguished public servant, in: Jamaica Observer, Tuesday, March 28, 2006, Jamaica Observer Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Economic Development Institute (EDI) was established by the World Bank in 1955 to train officials concerned with development planning International Economic Development Council
2. ↑ Personalities Caribbean, 1973, p. 545
3. ↑ p. 28 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 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. 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Jamaican Chargé d'affaires in the United States August 6, 1962 to October 23, 1962	Neville Ashenheim
Earl Maynier	Jamaican High Commissioner in Canada from 1965 to 1970	Vivian Courtney Smith
	Jamaican ambassador to Panama in 1969
Laurence Lindo	Jamaican ambassador to Germany 1971 to 1972	Keith Johnson