James Cameron Tudor
{{Short description|Barbadian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Sir James Cameron Tudor
| honorific-suffix = KCMG
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| order1 =
| office1= Deputy Premier of Barbados
| term_start1 = 1965
| term_end1 = November 30 1966
| predecessor1 = Office Established
| successor1 = Office Abolished
| office2= 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados
| term_start2 = 30 November 1966
| term_end2 = 9 September 1971
| primeminister2 = Errol Barrow
| predecessor2 = Office Established
| successor2 =Cuthbert Edwy Talma
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|10|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = St. Michael, Barbados
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|6|9|1919|10|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = Bridgetown, Barbados
| nationality =
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| occupation = Politician
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Sir James Cameron Tudor, KCMG (18 October 1919 – 9 July 1995{{cite web |url= http://rulers.org/indext2.html |title= Index Tj-Tz |work= rulers.org |access-date= 19 July 2016 |archive-date= 25 September 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180925205456/http://www.rulers.org/indext2.html |url-status= live }}) was a Barbadian politician and diplomat, who was a founding member of the country's Democratic Labour Party in 1955. He served on the first Provisional General Council and as the first General Secretary.{{cite web|title=The Party |url=http://www.dlpbarbadoscanada.com/the-party.html |website=Democratic Labour Party |access-date=3 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204033621/http://www.dlpbarbadoscanada.com/the-party.html |archive-date= 4 February 2012 }} He served as the first Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados (and previously the only deputy premier of colonial-era Barbados), education minister, high commissioner to Britain, and United Nations ambassador, and was elected to both houses of the national legislature. He also worked as a broadcaster, lecturer and journalist.{{cn|date=October 2016}}
Tudor was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1970 New Year Honours,{{London Gazette |issue=45005 |date=30 December 1969 |page=51 |supp=y}} and was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order in the 1987 list.{{London Gazette |issue=50767 |date=30 December 1986 |page=39 |supp=y |nolink=yes}}
Background
Born in St. Michael, Barbados in 1919, Tudor was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and at Keble College, Oxford, where in 1942 he became the first Black person elected president of the Oxford Union.Pamela Roberts, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KrvABQAAQBAJ&dq=%22James+cameron+tudor%22+oxford&pg=PT159 Black Oxford: The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars], Oxford: Signal Books, 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/sir-philip-dowson-at-univ/|title=Sir Philip Dowson at Univ|access-date=September 29, 2021|date=September 10, 2021}} After receiving a master's degree in history and politics in 1944, he returned to Barbados and taught at Combermere School (1946–48) and in British Guiana at Queens School (1948–51).{{cn|date=October 2016}}
He was elected to the Barbados House of Assembly in 1951. He was a founding member in 1955 of the Democratic Labour Party, which assumed power in 1961 and led the former British colony to independence in 1966.
He served as Deputy Prime Minister,{{cite book |title=Foreign Service Journal |year=1972 |publisher=American Foreign Service Association}} twice served as Foreign Minister of Barbados{{cite web |url=http://rulers.org/fm1.html |title=Foreign ministers A–D |work=rulers.org |access-date=19 July 2016 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101112659/http://www.rulers.org/fm1.html |url-status=live }} (1971–72, 1986–1989), Education Minister{{cite book |title=Almanac of Current World Leaders, Vols 10-11 |year=1967 |publisher=International Academy at Santa Barbara |page=13}} (1961–67), as Barbados' High Commissioner to the United Kingdom{{cite news |title=Obituary: Sir James Cameron Tudor |newspaper=Toledo Blade |date=11 July 1995}} (1972–75), and High Commissioner to Canada (1990–1992), and was the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1976–1979).
He died in hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados, aged 75, following a heart attack.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/07/12/deaths/b9a98d2f-fa39-4c5c-b54e-446b3b84c7be/ "Sir James C. Tudor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002113749/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/07/12/deaths/b9a98d2f-fa39-4c5c-b54e-446b3b84c7be/ |date=2016-10-02 }}, Washington Post, 12 July 1995.
References
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Category:Deputy prime ministers of Barbados
Category:Leaders of the Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)
Category:Permanent representatives of Barbados to the United Nations
Category:High commissioners of Barbados to the United Kingdom
Category:High commissioners of Barbados to Canada
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:People educated at Harrison College (Barbados)
Category:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Category:Presidents of the Oxford Union
Category:Barbadian independence activists
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