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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Death of Mr. Henry Alfred Bristol, Retired School Master of Golden Grove

Death of Mr. H. A. Bristol retired East Coast Schoolmaster.
Victoria: Wednesday – Mr. Henry Alfred Bristol, retired School master of over fifty years’ service died at his late residence Golden Grove East Coast, Demerara, on Monday, February 9, and was buried the following afternoon. Rev. Fr. J. J. Purcell performed the last rites.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, February 20, 1931: page four.

Dr. Samuel L. Herbert – formerly GMO of the Mara District and the first Negro practitioner in the Colony. A skillful doctor and much given to research work. Died from blood poisoning contracted while making a post Mortem dissection. A short sketch of his career appears in the recently published “British Guiana Centenary Year Book, 1831-1931. (Georgetown) 1931” edited by Mr. E. S. Stoby.
Old Berbice – being some personalities of the past century with sidelights on the times by Joseph Ruhomon
Source: The Daily Chronicle, Sunday August 2, 1931: page two.

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