Noel Newton "Crab" Nethersole (November 2, 1903 - March 17, 1959) was a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar, cricketer and administrator, lawyer, politician, economist and Jamaican Finance Minister from 1955 to 1959.
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Early life and education
Noel Nethersole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1903, the eighth of 10 children of John Mapletoft Nethersole CBE, who is the Administrator General and Trustee at Bankruptcy of Jamaica. According to Michael Manley, Noel "comes from an almost white middle class family". He was educated at Jamaica College, Jamaica and Rhodes Scholar for 1923, studying at Lincoln College, Oxford. He returned to Jamaica in 1926 to practice law as a lawyer.
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Cricket career
He did not play cricket for the university team during his time at Oxford, preferring to concentrate on his studies, but he played five Minor Counties Championship games for Oxfordshire in the 1926 season, hitting in the middle order and opening the bowling. Oxfordshire finished second.
He made his first class debut for Jamaica in 1926-27, opening the bowling and hitting in the bottom sequence in the match against L.H. Tennyson XI. His first goal is Percy Fender's. In 1927-28 he was one of the players invited to Barbados to play a series of test matches to help West Indies voters select teams to tour the First Test in England in 1928. His performance was moderate, and he was not selected for the tour. Later in the season he made the highest first-class score, 71, batting at number eight in a Jamaican victory over L.H. Tennyson XI. He was the Jamaican captain in all eight of their first class games from 1931-32-1938, for two wins, one loss and five draws.
He was a member of the West Indies Cricket Control Board from 1939 to 1955, also serving during this period as manager of the Jamaican team and a West Indian voter. He "waged [the battle] one hand" for the appointment of George Headley as captain of the West Indies for the series against England in 1947-48; until then there was no non-white player who became captain of the Test side. Headley became the West Indies captain in the First Test of this series.
Political career
Nethersole helped found the National People's Party (PNP) in 1938 and served as his vice-president from 1938 until his death in 1959. Norman Manley was president. During the Second World War he was prominent in the Jamaican union movement, and made a reputation as a conciliator.
He stood unsuccessfully for the PNP in the 1944 Jamaican national election, but succeeded in the next election in 1949 and entered parliament as a member of the opposition to the constituents of St. Andrew Central. In the early 1950s he led a PNP committee whose determination led to the expulsion of the party's extreme leftist members. He became the first president of the National Workers Union, which was a more moderate successor to the Council of Trade Unions. In the 1955 election, PNP won office. As party representative for Norman Manley, the new First Minister, Nethersole became Second Minister and held the post of Minister of Finance.
Nethersole was determined to modernize the financial institutions of Jamaica to provide for the country's economic independence, in preparation for its political independence, which came in 1962. He played an important role in ensuring that when Jamaica became the world's largest bauxite producer in 1957, its results helped in the development of Jamaica. He spent two years negotiating for big loans in New York City's money market, he laid the foundations for the central bank, and founded the Development Financing Company.
Death and inheritance
His wife Elsie died of cancer in January 1958. Nethersole underwent eye surgery in early 1959, and died suddenly of a heart attack on March 17.
The day after he died, on his front page, Kingston Gleaner said he was "fully responsible for the idea behind the work of transforming Jamaican financial institutions from the administrative pattern of the Morted Kingdom into a modern machine of a self-governing state that now become ".
Bank of Jamaica considers it a "father" of the Bank. The statue stands outside the front of the Bank building, which is in Nethersole Place, Kingston. His portrait appeared on a $ 20 Jamaican note between 1976 and 2000.
Her stepson, Elsie's daughter, is Tessa Prendergast.
References
External links
- Noel Newton Nethersole: A Short Study by James Carnegie
- Noel Nethersole in CricketArchive
- Noel Nethersole in Cricinfo
- "Hon. Noel Nethersole Dies", Kingston Gleaner, March 18, 1959.
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