Tom Redcam

Thomas Henry MacDermot, who wrote under the name Tom Redcam, was born on 26 June 1870 at Arthurs Seat, in the parish of Clarendon, of Irish descent, and spent much of his childhood in Trelawny. Educated at Falmouth Academy and then at the Anglican school in Kingston, he was a schoolteacher before joining the Jamaica Post, the Daily Gleaner and finally the Jamaica Times, which he edited for twenty years. He encouraged the early work of Claude McKay and H. G. de Lisser. Retired in 1922, he died in England on 8 October 1933 and was posthumously proclaimed the island's first poet laureate.

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