John Barbour James

John Barbour-James (June 1867 – 1954) was a Black British activist who worked to improve the understanding and recognition of the achievements of Black people in Britain.

Barbour James was born in British Guiana, where he became the postmaster in Belfield in the 1890s. While living in British Guiana he established the self-help Victoria Belfield Agricultural Society which promoted the value of improving the diet and farming among the Afro-Guianese People. where he founded the African Patriotic Intelligence Bureau in 1918. Barbour-James moved to the Caribbean in 1938, and died in Georgetown in 1954.