Background
SPRINGER, Hugh was born on June 22, 1913 in Barbados. Son of Charles Wilkinson Springer and Florence Springer.
SPRINGER, Hugh was born on June 22, 1913 in Barbados. Son of Charles Wilkinson Springer and Florence Springer.
Harrison College, Barbados, Hertford College, Oxford and Inner Temple, London.
Executive Committee, Barbados 47. Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 1962-1963, Honorary Fellow since 1988. Acting Government of Barbados 1964, Governor General 1984-1990.
Director Institute of Education of University of West. Indies 1963-1966.
Chairman Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council 1965-1984. Secretary Commonwealth Education Liaison Committee and Commonwealth Assistant Secretary-General (Education) 1966-1970.
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts since 1968. Chairman Commonwealth Human Ecology Council 1971-1980 (Honorary President since 1981), Commonwealth Foundation 1974-1977, Trustee 1967-1980.
Chairman Joint Commonwealth Societies Council 1978-1980, Tenth Anniversary Review Committee, University of the South Pacific 1979.
Chairman National Training Board of Barbados 84, Income Tax Appeals Board 1983-1984. President Education Section of British Association 1974-1975. Vice-President British Caribbean Association 1974-1980.
Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford 1974.
Honorary Doctor of Science Society (Laval University, Quebec) 1958. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Victoria University, British Columbia, University of West Indies, Saint Andrew’s, Manchester, University of New Brunswick, University of York, Ontario, University of Zimbabwe, University of Bristol, University of Birmingham), Honorary Doctor of Letters (Warwick, Ulster, Heriot-Watt, Hong Kong, City (London) Universities), Doctorate.C.L. (Oxford, University of East Anglia) 1980.
Honorary Professor, of Education (Mauritius) 1981.
House of Assembly, Barbados 1940-1947. Education Board, Barbados 1944-1947. Education Authority of Jamaica 1950-1956, International Labor Organization Committee of Experts on Social Policy in NonMetropolitan Territories 1953-1958, West. Indies Trade and Tariff Commission 1957-1958, University Grants Committee, Ghana 1959, Jamaica Public Service Commission 63, West. Indies Federation Service Commission 1960-1961.
Council of Bernard van Leer Foundation 1967-1978.
Of Bermuda Civil Disorders Commission 1968. Board of directors, United World Colleges since 1978(92), Board of Trustees, Sir Ernest Cassell Education Trust 1978-1980.
Married Dorothy Drinan Gittens in 1942.