Lennox Honychurch

Lennox Honychurch ( ; born 27 December 1952) is a Dominican historian and politician. He wrote 1975's The Dominica Story: A History of the Island, the 1980s textbook series The Caribbean People, and the 1991 travel book Dominica: Isle of Adventure. Also an artist and a curator, he was largely responsible for compiling the exhibit information for The Dominica Museum in Roseau. Honychurch is the grandson of writer and politician Elma Napier.

Biography Born in Portsmouth, in Saint John Parish, Dominica, Lennox Honychurch can trace his lineage in the Caribbean back to the 1790s.

Honychurch attended the St. Mary's Academy secondary school. After publishing several works on the history of Dominica, he was awarded the Chevening Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he gained a PhD at St. Hugh's College.

Honychurch's first job in the early 1970s was as a radio journalist, enabling him to reach out to locals about the island's history with a series of radio vignettes.

Political career Honychurch served as a senator in the House of Assembly of Dominica from 1975 to 1979, as a member of the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP). When the DFP formed the government in 1980, he also served as Press Secretary to The Government of Dominica until 1981.

Work as historian Honychurch's writing describes the history of Dominica and includes The Dominica Story: A History of the Island, first published in 1975, Dominica: Isle of Adventure, published in 1991, a three-book series entitled The Caribbean People (1995), Dominica's Cabrits and Prince Rupert's Bay (2013), and In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica (2017).

Honychurch has published several academic articles and he organized the first international conference on Dominican writer Jean Rhys in 2004.

Honychurch is an expert in the First Peoples of the Caribbean and has collected archival material related to Amerindian-African contact.

In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the university. as well as the Golden Drum Award (1994) for preservation of Dominica's cultural heritage, and in 2018, he received the Dominica Award of Honour, the nation's highest honour, for his contribution to historical and archaeological research.

Selected writings The Dominica Story: A History of the Island (1975) Dominica: Isle of Adventure (1991) Caribbean Camera: A Journey Through the Islands (1992) The Caribbean People (three-book series; 1995) Dominica's Cabrits and Prince Rupert's Bay (2013) In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica (Papillote Press, 2017), Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica (Papillote Press, 2024),