Robert lightbourne jamaica biography

ROBERT CHARLES Lightbourne () is credited with composing the music for Jamaica’s national anthem. He was a businessman (industrialist) and politician. I remember him as the debonair minister of trade and industry in the s. His is a remarkable story. He is another of Jamaica’s noted figures whose expanded biography could be researched and written.

Lightbourne was born on November 29, at Mountpelier in St. Thomas, to planter and olitician, Robert Augustus Lightbourne (), and his wife, Isabel Adelaide Bogle (). His sister was the well-respected Hyacinth Lightbourne Maynier (), a medical doctor. Robert Charles, known also as Bob, I am assuming, attended school at the elementary level in St. Thomas. It seems that he studied music, the piano, with Miss A. Carnegie passing exams of the Royal Academy of Music. He was a talented musician. In religion, he would be a life-long Anglican.

He attended Jamaica College and the Bishop Stortford School in England. In April , the Gleane Robert lightbourne jamaica biography photos.