Lennox honychurch wikipedia

Also an artist and a curator, he was largely responsible for compiling the exhibit information for The Dominica Museum in Roseau. Honychurch is the grandson of writer and politician Elma Napier. Honychurch attended the St. Mary's Academy secondary school.

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island is a history book from , written by Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch.

Hugh's College. Honychurch's first job in the early s was as a radio journalist, enabling him to reach out to locals about the island's history with a series of radio vignettes. Honychurch serves as a board member and founder of the Museum Association of the Caribbean. This work includes training tour guides and providing education on sustainable, responsible tourism for communities around heritage sites.

Lennox Honychurch is Dominica's most noted historian and a politician.

Honychurch has published several academic articles and he organized the first international conference on Dominican writer Jean Rhys in Honychurch is an expert in the First Peoples of the Caribbean and has collected archival material related to Amerindian-African contact. Honychurch is a poet and painter. He is also a carnival artist. On 9 April , Honychurch was awarded the Anthony N.

In , he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies [ 11 ] and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the university. He is a recipient of the Sisserou Award of Honour , [ 12 ] as well as the Golden Drum Award for preservation of Dominica's cultural heritage, [ 4 ] [ 13 ] and in , he received the Dominica Award of Honour , the nation's highest honour, for his contribution to historical and archaeological research.

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