[I apologise for the poor quality of most of the pictures, many of which are from very poor quality newspaper pictures which have been reproduced digitally! If anyone has better photos of these or other Collegiate School alumni, I will gladly use them. J L]
An Early Alumnus
Daily Gleaner, December 28, 1866  | Jacob Cohen Stines was a pupil at the Collegiate School in the 1850s, before the headmastership of William Morrison. I have not been able to establish much about the career of J C Stines; I hope someone can help with more information. The Stines were an Ashkenazi Jewish family who are mentioned in Jamaican records as early as 1809. The Stines also appear in synagogue records as office holders. J C Stines' father, Joseph, was a prominent auctioneer. There are a few references to J C Stines as a lawyer in Jamaica, but references found on the Internet indicate that he left the island in 1876, and continued his career in the USA, possibly still practising as late as 1903. |
of the Collegiate School who went on to a career of usefulness and service to the people of Jamaica. 'He
began life as a schoolmaster in the school where he was as a pupil, a school that has turned out some of
Jamaica's greatest men, the Collegiate ot Kingston.' (Gleaner, March 13, 1917) [He] was made a deacon
in 1866 and a priest in 1867, and a Canon of the Cathedral in 1899. He ministered during his career at
Golden Grove, Annotto Bay, Brown's Town; Port Antonio, Harewood, and finally at St. Matthew's Allman
Town, Kingston, where he died on March 2nd. From 1905 he had been Organizing Secretary of the
Jamaica Missionary Society. (Who's Who in Jamaica, Obituaries for 1917)
Letters of administration were granted in the estate of the late Rev. Canon Harty deceased. The personalty
was sworn at £ 713. There was no realty. (Gleaner, April 14, 1917)
The Revd William Gillies writing of John Radcliffe
in 1895 in the Journal of the Instit
ute of Jamaica:
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more 'Old Boys' of the Collegiate School -
William Andrews (1843-1898)
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the last of the Old Collegiate 'Old Boys' | Frank Emanuel Lyons (died April 6, 1968) 
_____________________ Hubert Osorio (died sometime after April 1867; can someone update this information?) Daily Gleaner, June 21, 1940 '. . . a man for whom I had the greatest respect and love. He was a sturdy Scotchman who hailed from Banff and one of whose pupils I had the great honour of being in my early days. William Morrison, for such was his name, was a scholar and a poet . . .' in letter from Hubert (Caesar) Osorio
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