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Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke TC GCMG (28 December 1917 – 30 December 2010) [1] was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and the second and last Governor-General. He was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago 's 1962 Independence constitution.
Sir Ellis Clarke (1917–2010) 1976 1982: 1 August 1976 24 September 1976 10 years, 230 days Williams Chambers Robinson: 24 September 1976 19 March 1987 2 Noor Hassanali (1918–2006) 1987 1992: 20 March 1987 17 March 1997 9 years, 362 days Robinson Manning Panday: 3 A. N. R. Robinson (1926–2014) 1997: 18 March 1997 16 March 2003 5 years, 363 ...
The last governor-general, Sir Ellis Clarke, was sworn in as the first president on 1 August 1976 under a transitional arrangement. He was formally chosen as president by an electoral college consisting of members of both houses of Parliament on 24 September 1976, which is now celebrated as Republic Day .
Williams was born on 25 September in 1911. His father Thomas Henry Williams was a minor civil servant and devout Roman Catholic, and his mother Eliza Frances Boissiere (13 April 1888 – 1969) was a descendant of the mixed French Creole Mulatto elite and had African and French ancestry.
Sir Solomon Hochoy TC GCMG GCVO OBE (20 April 1905 – 15 November 1983) was the last colonial governor of Trinidad and Tobago and the first governor-general upon the country's independence in 1962. He was the first non-European governor of a British crown colony and the first ethnically Han Chinese and nationally Caribbean person to become ...
Lady Ermyntrude Clarke March 7, 1921 – April 23, 2002 (aged 81) August 1, 1976 March 13, 1987 Sir Ellis Clarke: Also wife of the Governor-General from 1972–1976 until her husband's office was abolished in 1976. Zalayhar Hassanali May 3, 1931 (age 93) March 18, 1987 Match 17, 1997 Noor Hassanali
Sir Clifford Husbands Gwen Ifill - American political journalist; television newscaster Thomas R. Jones - former civil court judge and civil rights activist in Brooklyn, New York
Sir Ellis Clarke – Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago (1973–1976); President of Trinidad and Tobago (1976–1986) Terry Davis – Secretary General of the Council of Europe Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear – Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (1990–1997)