Douglas Hall

December 1920 – 24 November 1999

**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.

• A brief history of the West India Committee
• Sewing
• Free Jamaica, 1838-1965
• Microprocessors and digital systems
• Five of the Leewards, 1834-1870
• In miserable slavery
• In miserable slavery
• The Caribbean experience
• A man divided
• Douglas Hall's animal nursery rhymes
• Douglas Hall's cats
• Free Jamaica, 1838-1865