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48 unusual facts about West Indies


1762 in Canada

Wednesday November 3 - According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests.

Archibald Burt

As his tenure continued, Sir Archibald gave up any hope of returning to the West Indies, and despite failing health during his last years, remained Chief Justice until his death in November, 1879.

Sir Archibald Paull Burt Kt QC (1810 – 21 November 1879) was a British lawyer from the colonies of the West Indies, and was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.

Armand Joseph Bruat

His early career included far-ranging sea duties: in 1815, he served in Brazil and the West Indies.

Aubrey Gwynn

He wrote on Irish and church history, but also on topics including the West Indies.

AWQAF Africa

AWQAF Africa (also known or referred to as AWQAF or The Awqaf) serves all countries of Africa: South, North, West, East, and other territorial geography of the continent including its islands in the Indian and Atlantic oceans and Mediterranean Sea, as well as the West Indies.

Charles Paget Wade

After the marriage they spent increasingly greater amounts of time at their house in the West Indies.

In 1911 Wade's father died and he inherited a share in the family business based on sugar estates on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies.

Daniel Elfrith

An active privateer in the West Indies as early as 1607, Elfrith commanded the Treasurer (owned by the Earl of Warwick) for several years.

Destination Treasure Island

With the money remaining, he buys a small boat and leaves England for the West Indies.

Edward Baynes

During his early military career, he served mainly in the West Indies, including a spell as commander of a detachment of troops serving as marines aboard a frigate.

Farragut, Brooklyn

In the 1980s, mostly African American blacks became a majority by the 1990s, including along with many immigrants from the West Indies.

Fort Nisqually

Fort Nisqually was operated and served by Scottish gentlemen, Native Americans, Kanakas (Hawaiians), French-Canadians, Metis, West Indians, Englishmen and, in the last final years before the British cession of their claims to Puget Sound with the Oregon Treaty, a handful of American settlers.

Gherkin

The term can also be used to refer to the West Indian Burr Gherkin (Cucumis anguria), a related species, originally from West Africa and introduced to the West Indies, probably by the Portuguese.

Gold roll

Unskilled labor was variously sourced but the great majority of laborers were West Indians; their wages were paid in local silver-backed currency.

Gordon Bilney

He served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the OECD from 1975 to 1978 and as the Australian High Commissioner to the West Indies from 1980 to 1982.

Highfield Rangers F.C.

The club was established in 1970 by a group of immigrants from the West Indies.

International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor

In the 1890s the group claimed to have 100,000 members in thirty US States, the West Indies, England and Africa.

Jerónimo Xavierre

He worked as a trainer and reformer in the religious life, did theological work on the question of de auxiliis, promoted the Order in the West Indies, and propulsor of the liturgy and the history of the Order.

John Greenhill

He distinguished himself in the merchant service in the West Indies, and was rewarded by the admiralty.

Jonathan Moulton

Also during this time, Moulton opened a store in Hampton and started importing goods from Europe and the West Indies to sell.

Laverne Antrobus

She was born in Reading, Berkshire, to Harold and Yvonne Antrobus, who moved to Britain from St. Vincent, West Indies in 1964.

Ludwig von Schröder

He additionally functioned as the Chief of the Cruiser-Class Division in the West Indies.

Maurice of the Palatinate

In 1652, while sailing for the West Indies, he was caught in a hurricane and went down with his flagship, HMS Defiance.

Mercurino Gattinara

During a review for the purpose of administrative reform, Gattinara advised Charles, in a section of the report entitled “Reverence toward God” on issues such as: whether Moors and Infidels should be tolerated in his lands; whether the inhabitants of the West Indian islands and the mainland were to be converted to Christianity; and whether the Inquisition should be reformed.

Music of the Lesser Antilles

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

The music of the Lesser Antilles encompasses the music of this chain of small islands making up the eastern and southern portion of the West Indies.

Mustique

The island is one of a group of islands called the Grenadines, most of which are part of St Vincent and the Grenadines, in the West Indies.

Nevis Express

Nevis Express was an airline which operated from St Kitts and Nevis, West Indies.

Obeah and Wanga

Obeah is a folk religion and folk magic found among those of African descent in the West Indies.

Olaus Swartz

After receiving his education at Uppsala, he traveled in Finland, Lapland, and the West Indies, and explored the coasts of South America in 1783, returning with a collection of rare plants.

Plundered Hearts

Jean Lafond, the governor of the small West Indies island of St. Sinistra, says that the player's father has contracted a "wasting tropical disease".

Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia

Xenia was on a cruise with her husband William in the West Indies at the time of Anna's arrival in New York.

Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

With several independent countries in the former British West Indies engaging in left-leaning policy experiments, seen by many as heading down the road towards socialism or "Communism", many Canadian banks were seeking to sever their ties in the Caribbean region so as to avoid having their operations nationalized.

Union Bank, like many other Canadian banks, was drawn to the West Indies by the flourishing trade between the Canadian Maritimes (i.e. Nova Scotia) with the wider West Indies region.

Rudy Ramcharan

Ramcharan joined the team in 1996, and became the first visible minority to win the Brier, being of West Indies descent.

Samuel William Reynolds

His father was born in the West Indies, the son of a planter, but, being sent in his youth to England for education, settled there permanently, and married Reynolds' mother, Sarah Hunt.

St. John's University School of Medicine

St John’s University School of Medicine was a medical school operated by Daniel and Barbara Harrington and their company Interactive Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) of Eugene, Oregon, which was supposedly based in Montserrat, West Indies.

The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts

In 1985, Sanford Meisner and Jimmy Carville co-founded The Meisner/Carville School of Acting on the Island of Bequia in the West Indies They later extended the school to North Hollywood, California at The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts a theater company that Jill Gatsby opened in honor of Sanford Meisner.

Two Jamaican Pieces

Two Jamaican Pieces is an orchestral suite composed in 1938 by Arthur Benjamin and using melodies from the West Indies.

Union Island

Due to its volcanic silhouette, it is also called the Tahiti of the West Indies.

V.I.P.: Aye chechey'

V.I.P.: Aye chechey' is a compilation of songs by Lord Kossity, Fabien, Don Miguel and Dr G-Kill, released in 1995 only in the West Indies on the label Hibiscus Records.

West Indian Prisons Act 1838

The Act empowered the Queen in Council and the governor and council of any colony to make rules for the government of the prisons of each colony in the West Indies.

William Phips

Of humble origin and poorly educated, he was a shipbuilder in Boston before embarking on several treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies.

William Sorell

Sorell was born probably in the West Indies, the eldest son of Lieutenant-general William Alexander Sorell and his wife Jane.

Windbag the Sailor

His tall tales catch him out when he is conned into commanding the Rob Roy, an unseaworthy ship, to the West Indies by a gang of criminals who mean to scuttle the ship for the insurance money.

Windward Islands

The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds in the West Indies blow east to west.

The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.


1975 English cricket season

The 1975 English cricket season was notable for hosting the first-ever Cricket World Cup which was won by West Indies, who defeated Australia in an exciting final.

Antilles

The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.

Arthur Thomas Thrupp

Thrupp was promoted to commander on 17 September 1858, and served as commander aboard HMS Desperate in the North American Station and the West Indies, from 30 July 1862 to 7 November 1863.

Bevan Congdon

His finest moments in Tests were in England in 1973 when he scored 176 at Trent Bridge and 175 at Lord's in successive Tests, and during the determined foray by the Kiwis to the West Indies in 1972, when he took over the captaincy from Graham Dowling.

Bowl-out

The first international bowl-out in a Twenty20 match took place on 16 February 2006, when New Zealand beat West Indies 3-0 in Auckland.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies

records of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire families involved in slavery and abolitionism, including lists of individual slaves and plans of a slave hospital in the West Indies dating from 1791

Cricket helmet

Graham Yallop of Australia was the first to wear a protective helmet to a test match on 17 March, 1978, when playing against West Indies at Bridgetown.

East Caribbean dollar

Queen Anne's proclamation of 1704 introduced the gold standard to the British West Indies, putting the West Indies about two hundred years ahead of the East Indies in this respect.

Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

On the death of the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the Lascelles family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade.

Garey Mathurin

Garey Earl Mathurin (born 23 September 1983 in Mon Repos, Saint Lucia) is a cricketer who plays for the West Indies at international level and for the Windward Islands domestically.

George Codrington

After captaining Barbados in an inter-island under 21 competition in the West Indies, George Codrington first came to England in 1986 as part of a Viv Richards scholarship with Curtly Ambrose and Samuel Skeete.

Gilbert Livingston

Gilbert Vivian Livingston (born 22 November 1877 in the West Indies, death details unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.

Harewood House

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Ivan Madray

Ivan Samuel Madray (born 2 July 1934, Port Mourant, British Guiana (now Guyana), died 23 April 2009, Georgetown, Guyana) was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1958.

Jean Thurel

One of Thurel's sons was a corporal and a veteran in the same company; he died at the Battle of the Saintes, a naval battle that occurred on 12 April 1782 off the coast of Dominica, West Indies during the American campaign.

John Cruger

He had sent his older sons overseas to run parts of the business; Tileman to the West Indies, and Henry to Bristol in England, while he kept John at home to take charge in New York.

Karl von Scherzer

Here Scherzer became friends with Moritz Wagner and together with him travelled through North and Central America and West Indies (1852–1855).

Katherine Brown

A right-arm off-break bowler, Katherine played a test match for the English women's cricket team in 1979 against West Indies, scoring 16 in her only innings and, bowling off breaks, took two wickets in the match for 56 runs.

Majid Haq

Majid regards the highlight of his cricketing career to date as beating Durham and Lancashire in the National League in 2003 and also participating in the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies.

Matthew Fosh

He toured the West Indies with the England Young Cricketers in 1976 and played in one 'test match' in Trinidad alongside Mike Gatting and David Gower, scoring 41 in the first innings of a game won by England by 22 runs.

Mohammad Salman

Salman made his international debut (in all formats) verses West Indies in the only T20 played at Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia on 21 April 2011.

Monoplex nicobaricus

Regions where Monoplex nicobaricus is found include Aldabra, Brazil, Canaries, Cape Verde, Chagos, European waters, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Mascarene Basin and West Indies.

Pedro Gual Escandón

Being arrested at his home, on 16 September 1861, the military custody retires from his house, but despite the relative freedom that have, don't separated from his home until his definitive exile, going to the islands of Saint Thomas and Charlotte Amalie in the West Indies, receiving a message from General Juan José Flores to travel to Ecuador, accepting the invitation, goes along with his son.

Richard Staple

He played twice in the Red Stripe Cup against the Leeward Islands and Barbados in February 1991, and went on the West Indies tour of England that year, playing against a World XI at the North Marine Road ground in Scarborough.

Robert William Keate

Keate later joined the colonial civil service upon, and was sent to the West Indies in 1857 as Governor of Trinidad, a position he held from 26 January 1857 to 1864.

Samoidae

Samoidae from Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia, Mexico, the West Indies and Venezuela are all remarkably similar, while the species from Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles and Indonesia do at least in part not belong to this family.

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Tropidophis greenwayi

Found in the West Indies in the Caicos Islands, particularly on the islands of Ambergris Cay, Long Caye, Middle Caicos, Middleton Cay, North Caicos, South Caicos, and probably also on Providenciales.

USS Pargo

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Pargo, named in honor of the pargo, a fish of the genus Lutjanus found in the West Indies.

Wasim Jaffer

He would not start another international match for some time, eventually returning in May 2002 for a tour of the West Indies.

Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier

The participating teams were Ireland, Japan, Pakistan, Scotland and the West Indies in addition to hosts the Netherlands.