Sir Hugh Springer

Sir Hugh Worrell Springer was born on June 22, 1913, in Saint Michael. A brilliant student at Harrison College, he won the Barbados Scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read classics and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. Returning to Barbados in 1940, he joined Grantley Adams to become the first General Secretary of both the BLP and the BWU.

In 1947, Springer stepped away from politics to become the foundational Registrar of the newly formed University College of the West Indies (UCWI) in Mona, Jamaica, helping build Caribbean higher education. He later served as Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and, from 1984 to 1990, as Governor-General of Barbados.