Lionel Town is a
settlement in the
Clarendon parish
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of
Jamaica
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. 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
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