James Cameron Tudor

Sir James Cameron Tudor, KCMG (18 October 1919 – 9 July 1995 ) 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. 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. and was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order in the 1987 list.

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. After receiving a master's degree in history and politics in 1944, twice served as Foreign Minister of Barbados (1971–72, 1986–1989), (1961–67), (1972–75), and High Commissioner to Canada (1990–1992),