Richard Hart (Jamaican politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Hart (Jamaican politician)

Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1917

Place of Birth: Montego Bay, Jamaica

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2013

Profession: solicitor, politician, historian

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Richard Hart (13 August 1917 – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician.
He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the pioneers of Marxism in Jamaica.
He played an important role in Jamaican politics in the years leading up to Independence in 1962.
He subsequently was based in Guyana for two years, before relocating to London in 1965, working as a solicitor and co-founding the campaigning organisation Caribbean Labour Solidarity.
He went on to serve as attorney-general in Grenada under the People's Revolutionary Government in 1983.
He spent the latter years of his life in the UK, where he died in Bristol. Hart was the author of several notable books on Caribbean history – including Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1939–1945 (1999), Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion (2002) and The Grenada Revolution: Setting the Record Straight (2005) – and he lectured on the subject at universities in the West Indies, the US, Canada and Europe.
Professor Rupert Lewis of the University of the West Indies' Mona campus once described Hart as "the most consistent Caribbean activist".