THE LAST SURVIVING Barbadian in the defunct West Indies federal Parliament has died.
Harcourt Fitzgerald Gilmore Rocheford passed on Sunday at a nursing home at the age of 91.
Rocheford, who was also a former headteacher, served in the parliament of the West Indies Federation from 1958 until it was dissolved in 1962. Prior to that, he had tried unsuccessfully for a seat in the Barbados Parliament when he contested the St George constituency for the Barbados Labour Party.
He also ran for St Michael in 1966 and St Michael North East in 1971, when single member constituencies  were introduced. He also served as the party’s general secretary from 1955 to 1964, during which time he co-founded the League of Young Socialists in 1959. He was a Government senator from 1976 to 1981.
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