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St Luce Philip was a Trinidadian doctor and planter.^[1] Part of the prominent coloured (mixed-race) Philip family, he was the brother of Jean-Baptiste Philip and a relative — possibly the uncle — of Michel Maxwell Philip.^[2]^: 87

Philip was the first non-white person appointed to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago.^[2]^: 87 He was appointed to the Council as an Unofficial member by acting governor Murray Macgregor in 1838.^[3]

References

^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
^ ^a ^b Brereton, Bridget (1979). Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad 1870–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Cudjoe, Slewyn (2013-07-25). "Dr. St. Luce Philip: The First Black Legislator of Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago News Blog". Retrieved 2021-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[slaveowners-1] "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-14.

[Brereton1979-2] Brereton, Bridget (1979). Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad 1870–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[3] Cudjoe, Slewyn (2013-07-25). "Dr. St. Luce Philip: The First Black Legislator of Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago News Blog". Retrieved 2021-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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