Background
Clennell Wilsden Wickham was born on 21 September 1895 in St. Michael, Barbados.
Clennell Wilsden Wickham was born on 21 September 1895 in St. Michael, Barbados.
After serving with the British West Indies Regiment during World War I, he returned to Barbados and joined the staff of the Herald, a left-of-center weekly, through which he aroused the political consciousness of the Barbadian masses.
Wickham joined with Charles Duncan O’Neale in launching the Democratic League in 1924, of which the Herald became the semiofficial spokesman. The successes of the league—electing members of the assembly from 1924 to 1936, in spite of the severe limitation of the franchise—were largely due to Wickham’s campaigns in the Herald.