A biography of sir grantley adams
Norman manley.
A biography of sir grantley adams airport
Adams, Grantley
April 28, 1898
November 28, 1971
Grantley Herbert Adams was born in Barbados to Fitzherbert and Rosa Adams. Grantley was one of seven children and received his primary education at St.
Giles Boys' School, where his father was head teacher. Thereafter, he was educated at Harrison College and won the prestigious Barbados Scholarship in Classics in 1918. After winning the scholarship, Grantley served for a year on the staff of his alma mater.
A biography of sir grantley adams
That scholarship enabled him to receive his tertiary education and professional training at St. Catherine College at Oxford University and at the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London.
In 1925 Adams returned to Barbados and was called to the bar.
It did not take him too long to establish his reputation as a formidable advocate and build up a reasonably thriving practice. He combined the practice of law with journalism as lead writer of the Agricultural Reporter, a daily newspaper owned and supported by the ruling class