Lynden Pindling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lynden Pindling

Bahamian politician

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1930

Place of Birth: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Date of Death: 26-Aug-2000

Profession: politician

Nationality: Bahamas

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling (22 March 1930 – 26 August 2000) is regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to majority rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.
He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992.
He was leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) from 1956 to 1997 when he resigned from public life under scandal. Pindling won an unbroken string of general elections until 1992, when the PLP lost to the Free National Movement (FNM) led by Hubert Alexander Ingraham.
He conceded defeat with the words: "the people of this great little democracy have spoken in a most dignified and eloquent manner (and) the voice of the people, is the voice of God". Pindling was a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St.
Michael and St.
George in 1982.