Douglas Lynch (businessman)
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Sir Douglas Lynch, KA, CMG, QC (1926 – 12 April 2016) was a Barbadian retired businessman and lawyer, former member of the Privy Council of Barbados and a director of the Central Bank of Barbados.
Sir Douglas was the first person to be formally admitted to the party,[1] and himself stood for election, but was defeated in his first and sole attempt to gain political office, but remained a powerful background figure in the Democratic Labour Party with Barrow rarely making any decisions on business or financial without consulting him.[2]
Among many posts held in the private sector he was also a director, and vice-chairman, of the island's largest insurance company, the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society (known by all locally as simply "The Mutual").
Sir Douglas joined The Barbados Shipping and Trading Company - the country's largest company, being the holding company for the six next largest companies in the country - as a Director, and as a regular part-time student of business at MIT was instrumental in choosing and setting up their first mainframe computer - which used a card-reading machine for input.
In time, Sir Douglas rose to become Joint Managing Director of BS&T, followed by promotion to Chairman[3] and then Chairman and Joint Managing Director upon the retirement of his predecessor. He died in Barbados in April 2016.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ 30 years and onward: in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary. Democratic Labour Party. 1985. p. 6. OCLC 13519235.
- ^ Morgan, Peter (1994). The life and times of Errol Barrow. Caribbean Communications. p. 28. OCLC 32104227.
- ^ "Menard: 'Silly for me to push them'". The Montreal Gazette. 1 March 1975. p. 4.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - Knights and Dames since 1837: Kin-Lyv[usurped]
- ^ SIR DOUGLAS PERCY LYNCH KA, CMG, QC