Philip Rostant
Trinidad and Tobago newspaper editor and social activist
About Philip Rostant
Lived 1822 – 1904 (aged 81–82). Philip Rostant was a journalist, activist and newspaper editor.
Philip Rostant (1822–14 June 1904) was a Trinidad and Tobago newspaper editor and social activist.
Early life and education Rostant was born in 1822, the second son of Léon Toussaint Rostant, a wealthy Trinidadian planter of French descent, and Marie Louise d'Angleberne, the daughter of a French army officer who had settled in Martinique in 1793 during the French Revolution. which was financed by Hypolite Borde.
Despite his background, Brereton said that Rostant "stands out as the most radical political leader of the later years of the [nineteenth] century" and describes his hostility to British officialdom as "a kind of anti-colonialism".
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Trinidad and Tobago newspaper editor and social activist
When was Philip Rostant born?
Philip Rostant was born in 1822 in Trinidad.
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Philip Rostant died on 14 June 1904.
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Philip Rostant was a journalist, activist and newspaper editor.
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