Michel Maxwell Philip

Michel Maxwell Philip was born on 12 October 1829 in the south of Trinidad, probably the natural son of a white planter and a woman of colour. Educated at a Catholic college in Scotland, he studied law in London and was called to the bar in 1854. Back on the island, he was a school inspector, then in 1867 the first non-white man elected mayor of Port of Spain, and finally solicitor general of the colony from 1869 until his death. He died at Maraval on 30 June 1888.

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