Background
Edward Gerald Patrick was the son of the Count and Countess Zimmermann Barbaro of St George.
(Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas a city on the isl...)
Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas a city on the island of Grand Bahama, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lucaya's primary industry is tourism. Major hotels and attractions in the resort are the Our Lucaya resort, which includes both The Radisson and Reef Village properties, Pelican Bay Hotel and the UNEXSO (UNderwater EXplorers SOciety) dive charter operation. UNEXSO was the first destination dive charter business in the world and now features a dolphinarium as well as a variety of SCUBA diving charters including shark feeding dives. Port Lucaya is a popular spring break destination with the socializing centering on Count Basie Square.
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A very welcoming and hospitable plce where tourists and habitans may enjoy themselves with amazing shopping and indulge themselves with tasty food while listening authentic bahamian music.
Edward Gerald Patrick was the son of the Count and Countess Zimmermann Barbaro of St George.
His first school yers he spent in his motherland but then moved to England to continue his studies.
Having served as Chief Magistrate (and for a time acting Solicitor General) in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, from 1956 to 1960, St George returned there in 1967 to set up in legal practice and to work with Sir Charles Hayward, a principal shareholder in the Grand Bahama Port Authority.
A decade later, St George and Sir Charles's son, Sir "Union" Jack Hayward, took over the management of the Port Authority, which, as a subsidiary of an American company since the 1940s, had been established as a concern with a bright future by the American businessman Wallace Groves.
Thanks to Grove's foresight and negotiating skills, the Port Authority had obtained the benefit of decades-long exemption, in the Grand Bahama Freeport and the Lucaya area of the island, from all import duties and from all taxes on income, property, capital gains, dividends and other receipts.
In 1979, in the space of a hectic 30 days, Edward St George and Jack Hayward succeeded in raising $42 million to buy out Wallace Grove's 42 per cent shareholding in the Port Authority. Subsequently, having borrowed a further $70 million, they turned the Authority into a private company.
As co-chairman, St George designed a new courthouse for Grand Bahama, and also Port Lucaya, a Bahamian-style port-side complex of shops, bars and restaurants. In partnership with Hutchison Whampoa, of Hong Kong, the Authority also constructed a new industrial harbour for large container ships, with the largest dry dock in the world, the extensive Our Lucaya complex of hotels, shops and casino, and a new international airport.
As a result of these developments, Grand Bahama became the commercial centre of the Bahamas, and the achievements of the Port Authority provided a model for the working of private enterprise in co-operation with government. Having visited Grand Bahama in 2003, Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, invited St George to share the benefit of his experience with the South African business community.
On the Turf, the name St George was for many years associated with Charles St George, Edward's elder brother. After Charles's death in 1992, Edward, a lifelong racing enthusiast, kept on his brother's Sefton Lodge stables at Newmarket, leasing the yard, as the Lucayan Stud, to David Loder, and adopting his brother's black and white chevron silks.
Initially, St George sent Loder 12 horses to train; later he was to have as many as 25 horses in training, among them Desert Prince, winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in 1998. A shrewd judge of ability - and of form - St George engaged the services of Frankie Dettori and Olivier Peslier long before those two became household names. Never a good loser, St George saw to it that his racing enterprises paid for themselves.
He did a lot for the prosperity of the Bahamas and made isle Grand Bahama one of the most appealing and blossoming isles. His great mind produced lots of ideas used afterwards to achieve economical growth and revenue for the state and for people.
His mathematical mind leant itself to architectural drawings and he loved nothing better than poring over plans for new buildings in Grand Bahama. He built a pink Palladian courthouse and Port Lucaya, a Bahamian-style village of shops, bars, music and restaurants around a scenic port. On the out-island of Andros, Edward gave his friend old-timer and master craftsman Kingston Brown a mandate to build a traditional wooden Bahamian sailing sloop. The boat took two years to complete, and each plank of the hull was handpicked by Kingston who would disappear into the bush for weeks on end. ‘The Lucayan Lady’ competed every year in the Georgetown Regatta to great local excitement. Wagers were laid. Edward and race fans followed in a dinghy shouting and cheering. Rules were disputed and crew hurled overboard for ballast. Kingston would dress in top hat and tails and once famously proclaimed: "I is a genius and genius he born, not made." In his spare time, Edward minted more bullion coins for the Bahamas Government including one commemorating the ‘Golden Girls’ first Olympic Gold Medal for the Bahamas in the women’s relay race at the Sydney Games of 2000.
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He was a person of the world, travelled a lot and met different people what made his heart opened and his restless soul was ready to open all the new things of this wonderful world. He was a true piecemaker and the friendship with numerous politicians and representatives of royal families helped him in achievening his goals.
Quotations:
"The secret of life is to find something you really enjoy doing, then find someone else to pay you for doing it"
"Do not go gentle into that dark night; rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
"I hope, I have left a footprint in the sand"
He was an-open hearted person with a very active life position. Original thinker and man of many lives, he travelled a lot, discovered many places and easily became friends with lots of known and unknown people.
When he arrived to the Bahamas, he immediately fell in love with the islands and the Bahamian people, who were warm and hospitable. Edward often remarked that he loved being in the Bahamas so much he was going to throw his passport away.
Quotes from others about the person
"His love for the Bahamas, and especially Grand Bahamians, was the driving force in his life. In death I shall honour this commitment." from Lady Henrietta, his wife
He was married a couple times.
In 1954 he married Kathleen, the daughter of bookmaker William Hill. Kathleen died in 1960. They had two daughers.
In 1968 he married his partner in coin projects Mary Mullen, whom he met in New York. Despite ranting on the subject of American women, they married and have one daughter Laura, a music therapist and Reiki master.
While being in England Edward fell in love with Lady Henrietta FitzRoy, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Grafton and they married in 1979. . Henrietta moved to the Bahamas to her parents’ dismay.With Henrietta by his side, Edward settled permanently in Grand Bahama for the last 25 years of his life. They have two children Henry 21 and Katie 20 who are at university in Newcastle and Bristol respectively.
