Joseph Lambert Eustace, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph Lambert Eustace

Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1908

Place of Birth: Mayreau, Grenadines Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Date of Death: 02-Nov-1996

Profession: politician

Nationality: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Joseph Lambert Eustace

  • Sir Joseph Lambert Eustace, GCMG, GCVO (February 28, 1908 – November 2, 1996) was a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines politician.
  • He was born as the second son of Reynold Lambert Eustace and Beatrice St.
  • Hilaire Eustace of Mayreau in the St.Vincent Grenadines.
  • Together with his brother John Parmenas Eustace he founded the Intermediate School in November 1926 and taught there until around 1932 when he joined the staff of the St.
  • Vincent Boys Grammar School. A keen cricketer in his youth, he retained a lifelong interest in the sport.
  • He was also an avid reader and national Chess Champion and enjoyed woodworking in his spare time. He married Elaine Harold in 1941 and had a daughter, Elaine Marjorie Delores, born in 1942.
  • His wife died shortly thereafter and he was married a second time to Faustina Gatherer in 1947.
  • They had a son, Reynold Lambert Mountbatten in 1948 and a daughter, Margaret-Ann, in 1952. From 1950 to 1959 he was Manager of the Government Cotton Ginnery at Richmond Hill.
  • The ginnery burnt to the ground in 1959 and was not rebuilt.
  • He then built and operated his own oil and soap factory along with a cotton ginnery at Montrose from 1960 to 1967. In 1963 he became a member of the Saint Vincent Labour Party headed by Robert Milton Cato and successfully contested the South Leeward seat in the 1964 election.
  • The party however, remained in Opposition.
  • He was re-elected an MP in the 1967 election which the Labour Party won and then became Minister of Education until he resigned in 1971.
  • He was appointed Speaker of the House of Assembly where he served from 1972 to 1974 before retiring.
  • He was appointed Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in February 1985 and served in this capacity until 1988. He died on 2 November 1996 at the age of 88.

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