Mary Knibb
Mary Morris Knibb, MBE (28 February 1886 – 21 September 1964) was a Jamaican teacher, social reformer and philanthropist. She founded the Morris Knibb Preparatory School and donated a building which is used as the headquarters of the Church of the Redeemer, Jamaica, Moravian Church in Jamaica as well as land for construction of a community center. Morris Knibb was a women's rights activist and the first elected councilwomen in Jamaica. She was the first woman to vie for a seat in the Parliament of Jamaica, House when Universal Suffrage was granted to all Jamaicans. Early life Mary Lenora Morris "Nora" was born on 28 February 1886 in Carmel, Westmoreland, Jamaica, Carmel, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. In 1893, Morris began teaching as an assistant teacher at the Moravian Day School, in the customary Student teacher, pupil-teacher system of recruitment. Throughout the Caribbean prior to the 1950s, the most promising primary students, began working as assistant teachers to offset ...
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Carmel, Westmoreland, Jamaica
Carmel is a settlement in Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His .... References Populated places in Jamaica {{Jamaica-geo-stub ...
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