Scholar, reverend, politician, and perhaps aristocrat… James Arthur Stanley Harley was certainly a polymath. Born in a poor village in the Caribbean island of Antigua, he went on to attend Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities, was ordained a priest in Canterbury Cathedral and was elected to Leicestershire County Council. He was a choirmaster, a […]
The adventures of a Black Edwardian intellectual
Pamela Roberts tells Historia the remarkable story of a man, born in poverty on Antigua, who overcame prejudice and racism to win places at some of the world’s most prestigious universities and become first a priest and then a local politician. He’s the subject of her new biography, The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual […]