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        • 1692 and beyond
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        • Edward Maunde Thompson
        • Rev. R. Gordon
        • Rev Dr Hugh Croskery
        • Rev. T. Banbury
        • Rev. R. O. Taylor
        • Rev. H. L. Phillips >
          • as an Episcopalian priest
        • Rev. C. C. Douce
        • Rev. A. Cole
        • A. L. "Teacher" Walcott
        • Rev. and Mrs W. A. Burris
        • Rev. W. L. Brown
      • the Moravians >
        • Rev. W. V. Moses
    • in education >
      • brief lives >
        • Thomas Terence Sherlock
      • Francis Williams
      • ~ Woodlawn 1896
      • Matthew Josephs
      • T. B. Stephenson
      • Robert Lindsay
      • W Thomas Linton
      • S. C. Thompson
      • W. H. Plant
      • Sigismund C. Walker
      • Thomas I. Brown
      • E. Luther Brookes
    • in legal professions >
      • Peter Moncrieffe
      • J. T. Palache
      • A. A. Fleming
      • H. R. Walters
      • H. A. Joseph
      • M. H. Spencer Joseph
      • J. L. King
    • in medical professions >
      • - doctors >
        • Sampson Altman
        • J. J. Edwards
        • A. J. Thomas
        • R. M. Stimpson
        • E. C. Kinkead
        • E. V. Smith
        • T. A. Dryden
        • Cicely Williams
        • Roderick Atkinson
        • - in the U.S.A. >
          • Simeon I. Battiste
          • David Newton Emanuel Campbell >
            • portable window fire-escape ladder
          • A. E. Forsyth
      • - dentists >
        • Pedro Pompey
        • A. T. Cooper
        • E. E. Clark
        • J. H. Nicholson
      • - dispensers >
        • Anthan F Berry
        • Charles E Moody
      • - nurses
      • - psychiatrists
    • in politics & public affairs >
      • early Black politicians [slideshow]
      • Edward Jordon
      • Jim Russell >
        • the 'Great War'
      • Colonel George Hicks
      • Samuel Page Smeeton
    • in business >
      • drogher/droguer women
      • Edward Vickars
      • Charles Phillip Lazarus >
        • Charles Philip Lazarus remembered
        • foundry >
          • - 'City of Kingston'
          • - Jamaica Cycle Company
        • building contracts
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          • 1909 Party of Progress
      • J. H. & J. O. Milke
      • beekeepers >
        • Hill/Darwin correspondence
      • Robert Mitchell Nicholas
      • Joseph Milward Gordon >
        • Gall's News Letter 1890
      • John Cassis
      • Jacob Hume Stewart
      • Christopher L Barnes
      • Ernest Clarke
      • Lance E. Drysdale
    • on the land >
      • John S. Levy
    • in sports >
      • athletics >
        • Alfred Reynolds Downer >
          • education
          • athletics career >
            • - amateur
            • - professional
          • . . . but after that
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        • Arthur Ford Mackenzie >
          • tributes
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        • J. K. Holt, snr
        • S C Snow
        • O. C. 'Tommy' Scott
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        • A. A. "Bill" Johnson
        • Washington 'Teacher' Battiste
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    • Maroons in Jamaica >
      • Gleaner references
      • 1796 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
      • 1802 Maria, Lady Nugent
      • 1836 Popular Encyclopedia
      • 1844 Edwin Tregellies
      • 1844 Philip Henry Gosse
      • 1859 Richard Hill
      • 1860 Atlantic Monthly
      • 1862 Edward Cust
      • 1865 Col. Fyfe
      • 1865 Once a Week
      • 1866 Charles Town Maroons
      • 1867 Trip to the Tropics
      • 1890 Historical Geography
      • 1898 New York Tribune
      • 1898 Edith, Lady Blake
      • my articles: >
        • 1996 'Trouble with the Maroons'
        • 2001 'A brave and loyal people'
    • . . . some more Jamaicans
    • and even more
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          • Harmony Hall
        • 19th century
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        • Peter Alexander Espeut >
          • P A Espeut interview
      • Waireka >
        • a trip to 'Wareka' 1896
      • Park Lodge >
        • Susan and Mary Burton >
          • Mount Mansfield
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        • - the Church
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        • - Theatre
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          • the Treasury clock
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        • - 'Victoria Quarterly'
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          • W. C. Murray
          • legacy
          • Dr R. O. Murray
        • Lionel Trim
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        • Prof. W. A. Barclay
    • magic lantern & beyond
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    • music and dance >
      • the classical musicians >
        • - Eleanor Alberga
        • ~ Neville Atkinson
        • - Nerine Barrett
        • - Richard Beckford
        • - Harold St Nicholas Cartier
        • - Frederic H. Cowen
        • - Noel DaCosta
        • - Louis Drysdale
        • - Samuel Felsted
        • - Maxine Franklin
        • - George and Hilda Goode
        • - David Johns
        • - John Lyon
        • - Marie McMarrow
        • - Edmund Reid
        • - Orrett Rhoden
        • - Oswald Russell
        • - Paul Shaw
        • - Don Shirley
        • - Stephen Tucker
        • - George Walker
        • - Curtis Watson
        • - Willard White
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    • & everything else >
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        • - tobacco
        • - opium
        • - cocaine
        • - cannabis >
          • 1913 legislation
    • public holidays >
      • crop-over
      • May 24th
      • June 7 >
        • Port Royal 1667
        • Great Earthquake 1692
      • August 1st >
        • 1888 - 50 years
      • Christmas >
        • 18th century
        • 19th century >
          • Christmas with Belisario
          • Christmas in Kingston >
            • - Creole Airs
            • Christmas at the Asylum
          • and across the island
          • Christmas Races
        • early 20th century
        • lotteries & raffles
      • other days >
        • Valentine's Day
        • Mother's Day
    • exhibitions >
      • 1891 >
        • the phonograph
        • merry-go-rounds
        • Amphitrite
      • 1932 >
        • the Exhibition starts >
          • a walk around the Exhibition
        • Exhibition extended
        • Exhibition sports
        • - D T Wint
        • - 'Exhibition' Beecher
        • - W A W Mitchell
        • - L. A. Thoywell-Henry
      • 1934
      • 1946 - Exhibition that wasn't
    • natural disasters >
      • earthquakes >
        • - 1692
        • - 1907 >
          • Kingston burning
          • reports >
            • map
            • - Capt. T. T. Lovelace
          • damage
          • who was Joseph E Thomas?
          • afterwards
        • - smaller 'quakes
      • hurricanes >
        • Jamaica's climate
        • Dampier and hurricanes
        • 18th century >
          • 1780s - hurricane decade
        • 19th century >
          • - 1815
          • 1830s & 1840s
          • 1870s & 1880s
        • 20th century
        • 21st century
      • fires >
        • 1843 >
          • 1843 Colonial Magazine
        • 1862
        • 1875
        • 1882
      • diseases >
        • cholera
        • 'Dandy fever'
        • "Spanish" 'flu
events  >
exhibitions >
1932 >
the Exhibition starts

L. A. Thoywell-Henry, 1906-47



Who's Who in Jamaica 1945
THOYWELL-HENRY, Lloydt Lionel Augustine, F.R.S.A., M.R.S.L., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.Hort.S., F.Ph.S. Journalist. Advertising Practitioner and Businessman: Sole propr. Thoywell-Henry & Co. since 1936. Thoywell-Henry Advertising Service, since 1932: Director, Cosmopolitan Assurance Co. Ltd. since 1936; Empirex General Insurance Co. Ltd. since 1938; Chairman Financial Services Ltd. since 1945; Director, Cosmopolitan Trust Co. Ltd. since 1938; Arnand's (Pills) Ltd. Eng., since 1937; Director, Jamaica Clay Products Ltd. since 1946; member Executive Committee Jamaica Press Association since 1943; Complier "Who's Who Jamaica" since 1934; member, The Biographical Society; Hanibal Gold Medalist (Book Award) 1943; Fellow Institute of Public Relations, since 1945; Vice President (1936-37) United Aid Society; Vice President, United Co-operative  Society, 1941-2; member, Aid to China Committee, 1941-5; Jamaica's Delegate Pan-African Congress London 1945; Born Kingston, March 19, 1906, son late Rudolph Fitzwilliam Thoywell and Agatha Elizabeth Henry, nee Thomas; Educated St. Aloysius and Alpha Elementary Schools; Private Tuition and Studies; Editor's boy (1923), Reporter (1923-1924), "The Daily Gleaner." Staff Reporter, Jamaica Times (Weekly) 1926; "The Weekly Herald," 1926-1927; was Junior Secretary to
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late Hon. Philip Stern, K.C., J.P., Advocate (mayor of Kingston and Clerk Honourable Legislative Council) 1927-1928; embarrassed 1928; Assistant News Editor, "The Blackman," 1929-1930; Religion: Roman Catholic; Politics: Nationalist; Publications: "Society Gossip" 1926; "Literary Comments" 1926; "Rum and Ginger" 1929; "Jamaica Hot Sauce" 1930; King George V Pictorial Souvenir, 1936; Editor-Publisher, "Scan Magazine" 1940; engaged for Special Service (Jamaica) World War II, accredited British War Correspondent (Capt.) and European Representative Jamaica Press Association 1945-1946; Married July 25, 1934, Millicent Ruby Thomson; has one son and two daughters: Clubs: Botanical, Lucas Cricket, Jamaica Press, Royal Societies (Lond.), Hispanic; travelled European Continent, U.S.A., Cuba and British Honduras; presented with Silver Plaque and Mahogany Carving at Public Dinner, Kingston, Sept. 23, 1943; Addresses: 107 Water Lane and "Stratmore," 8 Outlook Avenue, Bournemouth Gardens, Windward Road P.O., Kingston.
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