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Lionel Town, Jamaica
Lionel Town is a settlement in the Clarendon parish of Jamaica. It has a population of 5,416 as of 2009. Lionel Town has a Community Hospital. Lionel Town Community Hospital The town is named after the British colonial administrator General Sir Lionel Smith who was the island's governor at the time of emancipation Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure Economic, social and cultural rights, economic and social rights, civil and political rights, po ... in 1836. References Populated places in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica {{Jamaica-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous English-speaking world, Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish Empire, Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Cities And Towns In Jamaica
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions The following definitions have been used: *City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town, Montego Bay being granted the status in 1980, and Portmore, Jamaica, Portmore, whose municipal council was given the city title in 2018. It is not necessarily based on population counts, and while a honorific title, can confer some increased autonomy. *Town/Village: The Statistical Institute of Jamaica considers an urban area to be any area with 2,000 or more residents. A town would generally be considered to be ranked as a higher populated urban area, and a village as a minor urban area. *Neighbourhood: Geographically obvious subdivisions of any of the above. Cities Cities ** Country and parish capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Clarendon () is a Parishes of Jamaica, parish in Jamaica. It is located on the south of the island, roughly halfway between the island's eastern and western ends. Located in the Parishes of Jamaica#Counties of Jamaica, county of Middlesex County, Jamaica, Middlesex, it is bordered by Manchester Parish, Jamaica, Manchester on the west, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, Saint Catherine in the east, and in the north by Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, Saint Ann. Its capital and largest town is May Pen. History Clarendon was named in honour of the Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Sir Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The most recent parish was formed from a combination of three parishes: St. Dorothy's, Vere and the old parish of Clarendon. Before the merger, the capital was Chapelton, Jamaica, Chapelton. Clarendon Parish was one of the original seven Anglican parishes of Jamaica set up by Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet, Sir Thomas Modyford in 1664, and it has been r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Parishes Of Jamaica
The parishes of Jamaica are the main units of local government in Jamaica. They were created following the English Invasion of Jamaica, settlement of Jamaica in 1655. This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen Parish (administrative division), parishes. These were retained after Independence of Jamaica, independence in 1962. They are grouped into three historic County, counties, which no longer have any administrative relevance. Every parish has a coast; none are landlocked. List History Early history Following the English conquest of Jamaica the first phase of colonisation was carried out by the Army, with a system of Regimental plantations. These were drawn up on the southern flat lands, with the Regimental commanders charged with ordering their men to plant provisions. Certain key figures such as Luke Stokes (1656) and Thomas Modyford (1664) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Hospitals In Jamaica
Surrey, Jamaica, Surrey County Kingston and Corporation, Kingston and Saint Andrew *Chinese Sanitarium *Hope Institute *Andrews Memorial Hospital (private) *Bellevue Hospital (BVH) *Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) *El Shaddai Medical Centre Jamaica *Gynae Associates Hospital (private) *Heart Institute of the Caribbean *Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) *Maxfield Park Medical Center *Medical Associates Hospital (private) *National Chest Hospital (NCH) *Nuttall Memorial Hospital (private) *Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Center *St. Joseph's Hospital *University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) *Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) Portland Parish, Jamaica, Portland Parish *Buff Bay Hospital *Port Antonio Hospital Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica, Saint Thomas Parish *Princess Margaret Hospital Middlesex, Jamaica, Middlesex County Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, Clarendon Parish *Chapelton Hospital *Lionel Town Community Hospital *May Pen Hospital *Percy Junior Hospital Manchester P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
General Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet (9 October 1778 – 2 January 1842) was a British diplomat, colonial administrator, and soldier. Life His mother was noted writer and feminist Charlotte Smith. His father was Benjamin Smith, and his paternal grandfather was Richard Smith, a wealthy merchant and enslaver. In 1821, General Smith, then serving in the Bombay Army, commanded a punitive campaign against the Bani Bu Ali tribe in Oman. Lionel Smith was Governor of Tobago in 1833 and then Governor of Barbados (1833–1836), Viceroy of the colony of Windward Islands (which then included Grenada) from 1833 to 1836. He was awarded a baronetcy on 19 July 1838 for his service as Governor of Jamaica from 1836 to 1839. During his governorship, the United Kingdom passed the Abolition Act that stated that slavery "shall be and is hereby utterly abolished and unlawful". On 1 August 1838, Governor Sir Lionel read thProclamation of Freedomto a crowd of 8,000 at the celebration of emancip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abolitionism In The United Kingdom
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of History of slavery, slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade. It was part of a wider abolitionism movement in Western Europe and the Americas. The trade of slaves was made illegal throughout the British Empire by 1937, with Nigeria and Bahrain being the last British territories to abolish slavery. Origins In the 17th and early 18th centuries, English Quakers and a few evangelical religious groups condemned slavery (by then applied mostly to Africans) as un-Christian. A few secular thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment criticised it for violating the rights of man. James Edward Oglethorpe was the first to act on the Enlightenment case against slavery on humanistic grounds. In his "Georgia Experiment" he convinced Parliament to ban slavery in his Province o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
