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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
Nassau, Bahamas - The Bahamas Historical Society will host a talk by
Sir Orville Turnquest on the 'Over the Hill' Grants Town on Thursday,
February 25th at 6pm.
The talk will take place at our museum on the corner of Shirley Street
and Elizabeth Avenue. Parking at the ex Psilinakis car park north of
the museum on Elizabeth Avenue. Entrance via First Caribbean Bank.
SIR ORVILLE TURNQUEST, GCMG, QC, LL.B., J.P. served as
Governor-General of The Bahamas from January, 1995 to November, 2001. Born
in Nassau, Bahamas, on July 19, 1929, he completed his early education in
The Bahamas. and later obtained an LL.B. degree from London University, and
was also admitted to the English Bar as a Member of Lincoln's Inn, London,
where he is also now an Honorary Bencher.
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
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