Norman Manley

Norman Manley was Jamaica's Chief Minister and then Premier between 1955 and 1962. He led the negotiations for the island's independence in 1961, although his efforts to keep Jamaica within the West Indian Federation failed. As a Rhodes Scholar he studied law at Oxford, before returning to Jamaica as a barrister. He took a prominent role in defending black workers during the 1838 labour crisis and was the island's leading lawyer at the time he travelled to Manchester in 1946. His son, Michael Manley, followed him into politics and became Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972.

Source: T. E. Sealy, "Manley, Norman Washington (1893–1969)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)