TA Marryshow's mother died in 1890, and then Maricheau was brought up by his godmother.
18 Facts About TA Marryshow
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TA Marryshow initially attended a Roman Catholic primary school and, subsequently, a Methodist School.
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TA Marryshow's company produced radical newspapers, advocating representative government and a West Indian federation.
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Donovan taught him about journalism and TA Marryshow became sub-editor of the St George's Chronicle and Grenada Gazette in 1908.
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TA Marryshow was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa and confidently predicted independence for British African colonies.
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TA Marryshow was presented to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, during his 1920 visit to Grenada as "Grenada's leading journalist".
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TA Marryshow himself was elected representative for the St George's constituency, a position he retained for 33 years.
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TA Marryshow continued to participate in various activities designed to promote a regional Federation, including the first regional conference on integration, held in Barbados in 1929.
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TA Marryshow visited London again to lobby the British Colonial Office in favour of a Federation in 1931.
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TA Marryshow co-founded the Grenada Workingmen's Association in 1931 and in 1945 was appointed as the first president of the Caribbean Labour Congress, the first attempt to bring together regional labour unions.
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However, TA Marryshow was made Deputy President of the Legislative Council.
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TA Marryshow was nominated to represent Grenada as a Senator in the Upper House of the Federation's Parliament.
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TA Marryshow died in the same year and thus did not live to see the collapse of his dreams; the Federation was dissolved after just four years, in 1962.
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TA Marryshow had never married but fathered 17 children, including six with Edna Gittens.
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TA Marryshow named it the "Rosery" as there was a popular song by that name when it was being built, and he went on to develop an impressive rose garden.
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TA Marryshow would take it to political meetings, and encourage people to use the name of "The Bulldog" for him.
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TA Marryshow was himself a good singer and enjoyed singing Spirituals.
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TA Marryshow was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1943 Birthday Honours.