10-535: Hamilton Lavity Stoutt (7 March 1929 – 14 May 1995) was a British Virgin Islander politician and the first and longest serving Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands . He won five general elections ( 1967 , 1979 , 1986 , 1990 and 1995 ) and serving three non-consecutive terms of office from 1967 to 1971, again from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 until his death in 1995. Stoutt
20-599: The United Party , and the other the VI Democratic Party . At an event to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of Wheatley, then Premier Orlando Smith made a commitment to provide public funds to memorialise his achievements and for a book about his life to be published. His grandson Natalio Wheatley became Premier of the British Virgin Islands in May 2022. Served as Chief Minister of
30-866: The British Virgin Islands The Premier of the Virgin Islands is the head of government for the British Virgin Islands . As a British Overseas Territory , the Premier is appointed by the Governor on behalf of the British monarch , currently King Charles III . Until 2007, the head of government was known as the Chief Minister of the Virgin Islands , but a constitutional change in 2007 renamed
40-662: The British Virign Islands. Willard Wheatley Willard Wheatley MBE (16 July 1915 – 22 January 1997) was a British Virgin Islands educator and politician who served two consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands from 1971 to 1979. He was the second ever Chief Minister of the Territory, and the first ever minister of finance. He served as Chief Minister at the head of two different coalition governments: one as de facto leader of
50-539: The most general elections of any leader (he won five), followed by Orlando Smith (three). Stoutt, Smith and Willard Wheatley are the only leaders to have served two consecutive full terms ( Ralph T. O'Neal also served two consecutive terms, but the first of those was the remaining part of a term after Stoutt's death). (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) All previous Chief Ministers or Premiers have served at least two terms except for Cyril Romney and Andrew Fahie. Served as Chief Minister of
60-527: The position as Premier. The current Premier is Natalio Wheatley . He is serving since 5 May 2022. Since the 1967 constitution was adopted, only seven different people (all men) have served as Premier or Chief Minister, and each of them except for Cyril Romney and Andrew Fahie has served at least two full terms. Also, each of them has served as the Leader of the Opposition . H. Lavity Stoutt won
70-780: The time of his death was thought to be the longest serving Parliamentarian in the Caribbean. He was a founder of and the leader of the United Party , but after splitting from the party in 1971 went on to found the Virgin Islands Party . Since Stoutt's death in 1995, a public holiday in the British Virgin Islands has been declared annually on the first Monday in the month of March in memory of his birthday. The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola bears his name. Stoutt himself left school after his primary school education, and obituary writers have suggested that it
80-428: The votes in the 1990 general election remain records for a district seat in the British Virgin Islands (the margin of victory was a record at the time, but has since been surpassed). Stoutt's 11 electoral victories are also a record. Stoutt's 38 years as a parliamentarian was a record, but was surpassed by Ralph O'Neal in late 2013. Served as Chief Minister of the British Virign Islands. Chief Minister of
90-550: Was born on 7 March 1929 in Long Bay, Tortola . He was the eighth child of Isaiah and Iallia Stoutt. He married Hilda E. Stoutt in 1956 and had three sons and three daughters. He was a staunch Methodist , and served as both a Sunday school superintendent and a lay preacher. Stoutt served as a parliamentarian in the Legislative Council from 1957 until 1967 prior to the adoption of the 1967 constitution , and at
100-412: Was his own lack of a formal education which so strongly inspired him to create and promote opportunities for BVIslanders to further their own educations. During his lifetime, Lavity Stoutt was extremely fond of the quote from Proverbs 29:18 — " Where there is no vision, the people perish ", a phrase he would recite frequently when arguing in favour of development projects. Lavity Stoutt's percentage of
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