Grantley adams biography

          Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April – 28 November ) was a Barbadian politician.!

          Grantley Herbert Adams

          Barbadian politician (1898–1971)

          Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April 1898 – 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician.

          Sir Grantley Herbert Adams was a Barbadian politician.

        1. Sir Grantley Herbert Adams was a Barbadian politician.
        2. Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC was a Barbadian politician.
        3. Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April – 28 November ) was a Barbadian politician.
        4. Barbadian; Premier –8, Prime Minister of West Indies Federation – An important figure in the regional movement towards integration.
        5. Grantley Herbert Adams was born in Barbados to Fitzherbert and Rosa Adams.

          6. He served as the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1954 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),[1] and he was named in 1998 as one of the National Heroes of Barbados.[2]

          Early life

          Adams was born at Colliston, Government Hill, St.

          Michael, on 28 April 1898. He was the third child of seven born to Fitzherbert Adams and the former Rosa Frances Turney. Adams was educated at St. Giles and at Harrison College in Barbados. In 1918, he won the scholarship and departed the following year for his undergraduate studies at Oxford University.

          Adams played a single match of first-class cricket for Barbados during the 1925–26 season, as a wicket-keeper against British Guiana in the Inter-Coloni