Barbadian National Heroes
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Heroes Square (formerly known as Trafalgar Square) in Bridgetown.[1]
Barbadian National Heroes are the designees of the Order of National Heroes Act, as passed by the Parliament of Barbados in 1998. The act formally recognized the stature of ten major figures in the history of Barbados.[1]
The first National Heroes Day was celebrated on 28 April 1998, the centenary of the birth of Sir Grantley Adams.[1]
Roster
National Heroes are styled as "The Right Excellent". The ten National Heroes are:[1]
- The Right Excellent Bussa (born in Africa and killed during an 1816 slave uprising fighting for his freedom in Barbados)
- The Right Excellent Sarah Ann Gill (1795–1866)
- The Right Excellent Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806–1871)
- The Right Excellent Dr. Charles Duncan O'Neal (1879–1936)
- The Right Excellent Clement Osbourne Payne (1904–1941)
- The Right Excellent Sir Grantley Herbert Adams (1898–1971)
- The Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987)
- The Right Excellent Sir Hugh Worrell Springer (1913–1994)
- The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St. Aubrun Sobers (b. 1936)
- The Right Excellent Sir Frank Leslie Walcott (1916–1998)
