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Raymond Barrow

Died in 2006

Raymond Barrow was born on 1 May 1920 in Belize City, the son of a district judge. A pupil at Wesley school and then at St John's College, he made a career in the civil service, in education, customs and the treasury. In his forties, he went to study law in England, at Cambridge and the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar of his country in 1977, before becoming a Queen's Counsel. His poems appeared from 1948 onwards in journals and anthologies. He died on 14 October 2006.

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