Douglas Hall

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**Douglas Hall** (1920-1999) Douglas Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in December 1920 and attended Jamaica College where he was influenced by Reginald Murray, Hugo Chambers, and the historian E. H. J. King. In College, he was a keen sportsman and won a gold medal award in school athletics before left to enter the University of Toronto in 1941. Like many, war service interrupted his studies when he joined the 48th Highlanders and saw active military service in Italy. Resuming his studies after demobilisation in 1946, Douglas completed his Master of Science in Economics at Toronto. From there he went to England to the London School of Economics where he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in History under the guidance of Professor F. J. Fisher. His thesis was published as *"Free Jamaica, 1838-1865: An Economic History"* by the Yale University Press in 1959. Douglas joined the staff of the then University College of the West Indies (later called University of West Indies, Mona) in 1954 as Extra-Mural Tutor for the Leeward Islands. In 1957 he returned to Jamaica as Resident Tutor, taught economic history in the Department of Economics between 1959 and 1961 and in the later year he joined the Department of History as Lecturer. By the time he was aged 43 he was appointed Professor of History and Head of the Department until he retired in 1981. Through his scholarly work, Douglas provided a distinctly Caribbean voice in the writing of Caribbean economic history, a field traditi

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