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Joseph Robert Love (1839 - 1914)
JOSEPH ROBERT LOVE (1839 – 1914)
Born in the Bahamas in 1839, he was first a teacher. He eventually went to the United States (Florida) where he took Orders in the Episcopalian Church. He worked only for a short time in the Church and then turned to Medicine attending the University of Buffalo. After graduating, he went to Haiti and was soon appointed to a high executive post in the Medical Department there. He returned in part to the church, performing duties as an Anglican clergyman and soon became the rector of a church in Port-au-Prince. He departed Haiti in 1889 and came to Jamaica where he started a weekly newspaper: The Jamaica Advocate
As a man of considerable learning, his paper attracted attention. He advocated self-government, but was much more interested in the plight and dignity of the black people of Jamaica. A great believer in education, he stressed that it was not sufficient simply to educate only the boys. He firmly believed and actively advocated the education of girls as well. It was, he stated, also not good not enough simply to have them leaving school after elementary education as was the general practice at the time, they must also avail themselves of a Secondary education. Unusual at the time, Dr. Love believed that a people cannot rise above the standards of its womanhood.
Anticipating Marcus Garvey, he preached that the black man should not consider himself in any way inferior to the white and he urged voters, even though there were few blacks among them to vote for candidates of their colour. He himself stood for election to the Legislative Council and was elected in 1906. He was elected to the Parochial Board of St. Andrew and subsequently became Chairman. He also became a member of the Kingston General Commissioners and the Board of Trustees of Wolmers. He died on November 21, 1914 and is buried in the Parish Churchyard at Half-Way Tree.
Sources
Coke, Yvonne O. , Eternal Father Bless Our Land: Father Hugh Sherlock. Kingston: LMH Publishing Ltd., 2000.
Senior, Olive, Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. St. Andrew, Jamaica: Twin Guinep Publishers Ltd., 2003
Joseph Robert Love (1839 - 1914)
JOSEPH ROBERT LOVE (1839 – 1914)
Born in the Bahamas in 1839, he was first a teacher. He eventually went to the United States (Florida) where he took Orders in the Episcopalian Church. He worked only for a short time in the Church and then turned to Medicine attending the University of Buffalo. After graduating, he went to Haiti and was soon appointed to a high executive post in the Medical Department there. He returned in part to the church, performing duties as an Anglican clergyman and soon became the rector of a church in Port-au-Prince. He departed Haiti in 1889 and came to Jamaica where he started a weekly newspaper: The Jamaica Advocate
As a man of considerable learning, his paper attracted attention. He advocated self-government, but was much more interested in the plight and dignity of the black people of Jamaica. A great believer in education, he stressed that it was not sufficient simply to educate only the boys. He firmly believed and actively advocated the education of girls as well. It was, he stated, also not good not enough simply to have them leaving school after elementary education as was the general practice at the time, they must also avail themselves of a Secondary education. Unusual at the time, Dr. Love believed that a people cannot rise above the standards of its womanhood.
Anticipating Marcus Garvey, he preached that the black man should not consider himself in any way inferior to the white and he urged voters, even though there were few blacks among them to vote for candidates of their colour. He himself stood for election to the Legislative Council and was elected in 1906. He was elected to the Parochial Board of St. Andrew and subsequently became Chairman. He also became a member of the Kingston General Commissioners and the Board of Trustees of Wolmers. He died on November 21, 1914 and is buried in the Parish Churchyard at Half-Way Tree.
Sources
Coke, Yvonne O. , Eternal Father Bless Our Land: Father Hugh Sherlock. Kingston: LMH Publishing Ltd., 2000.
Senior, Olive, Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. St. Andrew, Jamaica: Twin Guinep Publishers Ltd., 2003