14 Facts About Lennox Honychurch

Lennox Honychurch is a Dominican historian and politician.

Lennox Honychurch 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.

Lennox Honychurch read for his MPhil and PhD in Anthropology and Museology in 1995.

Lennox Honychurch has worked as an actor, including having a role in the 1991 television miniseries The Orchid House, produced and directed by Horace Ove, based on the novel of the same name by Phyllis Shand Allfrey.

Lennox Honychurch serves as a board member and founder of the Museum Association of the Caribbean.

Lennox Honychurch was instrumental in setting up Dominica's national museum, The Dominica Museum in Roseau, and has consulted at other museums and heritage sites throughout the Caribbean, including Betty's Hope plantation in Antigua, Fort Frederick in Grenada and Fort Charlotte in St Vincent.

Lennox Honychurch is developing an ecology and heritage center in the history buildings around Fort Shirley, an 18th-century garrison in Dominica's Cabrits National Park.

Lennox Honychurch served as a senator in the House of Assembly of Dominica from 1975 to 1979, as a member of the Dominica Freedom Party.

Lennox 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, Dominica's Cabrits and Prince Rupert's Bay, and In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica.

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

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

Lennox Honychurch's murals adorn churches throughout Dominica, the main post office in Roseau, and the national museum.

On 9 April 2011, Honychurch was awarded the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence, in the category of Arts and Letters.

Lennox Honychurch is a recipient of the Sisserou Award of Honour, as well as the Golden Drum Award 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.