Egbert Martin (Leo)

Egbert Martin, who signed himself Leo, was born around 1861 in Georgetown and spent almost all his life bedridden. His first verses appeared in The Colonist when he was nineteen, then in The Argosy and in the Echo; the editor of The Argosy, James Thompson, and the mayor of Georgetown, George Anderson Forshaw, supported him. In 1887, he won the competition opened throughout the Empire by the London Standard to add two stanzas to the British anthem, at the time of Victoria's jubilee. He died in Georgetown on 23 June 1890, at the age of twenty-nine.

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