Douglas Lynch (businessman)

This article is about the Barbados businessman. For other uses, see Douglas Lynch.

Sir Douglas Lynch, KA, CMG, QC (born 1926, died 11 April 2016 in Barbados) was a Barbadian retired businessman and lawyer, former member of the Privy Council of Barbados and a director of the Central Bank of Barbados.

Sir Douglas was the first person to be formally admitted to the party,[1] and himself stood for election, but was defeated in his first and sole attempt to gain political office, but remained a powerful background figure in the Democratic Labour Party with Barrow rarely making any decisions on business or financial without consulting him.[2]

Among many posts held in the private sector he was also a director, and vice-chairman, of the island's largest insurance company, the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society (known by all locally as simply "The Mutual").[3]

In time, Sir Douglas rose to become Joint Managing Director, followed by promotion to Chairman[4] and then Chairman and Joint Managing Director upon the retirement of his predecessor.

References

  1. ↑ 30 years and onward: in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary. Democratic Labour Party. 1985. p. 6. OCLC 13519235.
  2. ↑ Morgan, Peter (1994). The life and times of Errol Barrow. Caribbean Communications. p. 28. OCLC 32104227.
  3. ↑ Beckles, Hilary (1989). Corporate power in Barbados: the Mutual affair : economic injustice in a political democracy. Lighthouse Communications. p. 53. OCLC 20979035.
  4. ↑ "Menard: 'Silly for me to push them'". The Montreal Gazette. 1 March 1975. p. 4.
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