He practiced as Counsel and Attorney in The Bahamas since 1953 and was admitted to the Inner Bar as Queen's Counsel in 1992. He has also served in The Bahamas as a Magistrate, President of the Bahamas Bar Association, Lecturer in Law at the Bahamas Extra Mural Department of the University of the West Indies, Attorney General, Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister. He has also served as a Member of both Houses of Parliament from 1962 to 1994. A lifetime Anglican, he served as Chancellor of the Diocese of Nassau and The Bahamas from 1962 unti12002. He has also served on The Bahamas National Committee of the United World Colleges, and the Boards of Governors of St. John's College and St. Anne's High School, the Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church of the West Indies, the Provincial Standing Committee, the Commission on Theological Education, the Canons Revision Committee, and the Anglican Conference of North America and the Caribbean.

He is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Governor-General's Youth Award, and Chairman of the One Bahamas Foundation. He is Patron and Chief Scout of the Bahamas Scout Association, Patron of the Bahamas Boys' Brigade, Life Member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, Honorary Life Member of the Rotary Club of Nassau, and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He has received many honours over the years, and he holds honorary Doctorates from the University of the West Indies, Elmira College, N.Y., and Sojourner-Douglass College, Maryland, and lifetime awards from the Lions Club and 100 Black Men of America.\

The Bahamas Historical Society (BHS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in Bahamian History and to the collection and preservation of material relating thereto. Its Headquarters, the former IODE Hall, was a gift from the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). BHS is on Shirley Street and Elizabeth Avenue in Nassau. www.bahamashistoricalsociety. com