11 Facts About Hugh Springer

Hugh Springer was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1938, and subsequently returned to Barbados.

Hugh Springer practised law in Barbados from 1938 to 1947.

Hugh Springer co-founded the Progressive League with the barrister Grantley Adams.

Hugh Springer perceived Higher Education as vitally important for achieving regional cooperation and integration.

Hugh Springer had previously sought employment in education in London in the 1930s, but was rejected on the basis of his ethnicity.

Hugh Springer received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship of the Harvard Centre for International Affairs where he completed his 1962 book Reflections on the Failure of the First West Indian Federation.

On returning to Barbados, Hugh Springer was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Education at the University of the West Indies.

Hugh Springer was Assistant Secretary General at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and served as a Director of the United World Colleges.

Hugh Springer was appointed Governor-General of Barbados in 1984, a position which he held until he retired due to ill-health in 1990.

Hugh Springer received a Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of New Brunswick in 1980.

In 1998, Hugh Springer was named as one of the ten Barbadian National Heroes, designated by the Order of National Heroes Act.