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John Saint (agricultural chemist)

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from 1922 to 1927. That year, he went out to Barbados as a Chemist in the Department of Agriculture, and in 1937 was appointed as the colony's Director of Agriculture, a post he held until 1949. While Director, he was also chairman of the British West Indies Sugar Cane Breeding Station. During the
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Saint's other appointments included serving as President of the Barbados Technologists Association from 1939 to 1942, and again from 1950 to 1963, as General Chairman of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists from 1950 to 1953, as Chairman of the Barbados Public Service Commission,
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1952 to 1957 and of the Barbados Development Board and the Interim Federal Public Service Commission, 1956 to 1959. He was President of the
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of Barbados, in which he remained until 1961, when he became a Privy Counsellor for Barbados. In 1963 he retired to England, settling at
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until 1919. He held a Salter research fellowship for two years from 1920, then was a lecturer in Agricultural Chemistry at the
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In 1923, he married Constance Elizabeth Hole, and they had two sons and one daughter. He died on 15 June 1987, aged 88.
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he was Controller of Supplies in Barbados. In 1947 he was appointed as a member of the
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After retiring in 1963, he returned to England and lived in
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Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Weymouth, Dorset
CMG
OBE
FRSC
English
agricultural chemist
Barbados
Executive Council
Sussex
Beaminster Grammar School
Dorset
University of Reading
MSc
BSc
PhD
First World War
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Air Force
University of Leeds
Second World War
Executive Council
Hurstpierpoint
Sussex
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knighthood
New Year Honours List
Bridgetown
Fellow

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