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((short description|Barbadian politician))
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((more citations needed|date=April 2018))
((Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Excellent]] [[Sir]]
| name                = Grantley Adams
| honorific-suffix    = [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]]
| image               = Grantley Herbert Adams (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Adams in the 1950s
| imagesize           = 200px
| office1             = [[Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation]]
| monarch1            = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor-general1   = [[Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes|Lord Hailes]]
| term_start1         = 18 April 1958
| term_end1           = 31 May 1962
| predecessor1        = ''Position established''
| successor1          = ''Position abolished''
| order2              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Barbados|1st]]
| office2             = Premier of Barbados
| monarch2            = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor2           = [[Alfred Savage|Sir Alfred Savage]]<br />[[Robert Arundell|Sir Robert Arundell]]
| term_start2         = 18 February 1953
| term_end2           = 17 April 1958
| predecessor2        = Position established
| successor2          = [[Hugh Gordon Cummins|Hugh Cummins]]
| birth_date          = 28 April 1898
| death_date          = ((d-da|28 November 1971|28 April 1898))
| death_place         = [[Saint Michael, Barbados|Saint Michael]], [[Barbados]]
| occupation          = 
| party               = [[Barbados Labour Party|Barbados Labour]]
| otherparty          = [[West Indies Federal Labour Party|West Indies Federal Labour]]
| signature           = 
| spouse              = Grace Thorne
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[[File:Sir Grantley Adams statue, Barbados.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Statue of Sir Grantley Adams in front of the [[w:Cabinet of Barbados|Office of the Cabinet]] complex in [[w:Barbados|Barbados]]]]
'''Sir Grantley Herbert Adams''', [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] (28 April 1898 – 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician. He served as the inaugural [[Prime Minister of Barbados|premier of Barbados]] from 1953 to 1958 and then became the first and only prime minister of the [[West Indies Federation]] from 1958 to 1962. He was a founder of the [[Barbados Labour Party]] (BLP),<ref name=dnation>((cite news |first=Sanka |last=Price |title='Political giant' passes away |url=http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/political-giant-passes-away/ |work=Daily Nation |publisher=Nation Publishing |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310110000/http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/political-giant-passes-away/ |archive-date=10 March 2014 |url-status=dead ))</ref> and he was named in 1998 as one of the [[Barbadian National Heroes|National Heroes of Barbados]].<ref name=Pocket>((cite web|url=https://www.barbadospocketguide.com/our-island-barbados/national-heroes/sir-grantley-adams.html|title=Sir Grantley Adams (1898 – 1971)|work=Barbados Pocket Guide|publisher=Sun Group|date=7 February 2012|access-date=9 April 2018))</ref>

==Early life==
Adams was born at Colliston, Government Hill, [[Saint Michael, Barbados|St. Michael]], on 28 April 1898. He was the third child of seven born to Fitzherbert Adams and the former Rosa Frances Turney. Adams was educated at [[Saint Giles (Barbados)|St. Giles]] and at [[Harrison College (Barbados)|Harrison College]] in Barbados. In 1918, he won the scholarship and departed the following year for his undergraduate studies at [[Oxford University]]. Adams played a single match of [[first-class cricket]] for [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]] during the 1925–26 season, as a [[wicket-keeper]] against [[Guyana national cricket team|British Guiana]] in the [[Inter-Colonial Tournament]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/23/23182/23182.html Grantley Adams playing statisticers] CricketArchive; Retrieved 2 December 2014.</ref>

==Political career==
Adams' political interest began when he was still a law student in England. He became a member of the Liberal Party at Oxford, finding his views aligned best with those of the Asquithian liberals, in support of private enterprise and trade. Under the Liberal ideals of the era, support of trade union action, representational government and reform of the land ownership and taxation system were towards the overall goal of fostering free trade.<ref name="F.A. Hoyos 1974">Hoyos, F. A., ''Grantley Adams and the Social Revolution'', Macmillan (1974).</ref>

As the British liberals that shaped him rejected the socialism of the British Labour Party, so too did Adams oppose the labour-focused efforts of the Democratic League of [[Charles Duncan O'Neal]] and [[Clennell Wickham]] on his return to Barbados in 1925. He attacked their strike efforts as editor of the Agricultural Reporter, a planter paper that had opposed workers' rights since its nineteenth century inception. With a growing reputation and popularity among the conservative establishment, Adams' entry into the House of Assembly in 1934 was assured by his role in the deconstruction of the socialist League, including bankrupting one of the key journalistic voices in support of workers' rights.<ref>[[Gordon K. Lewis|Lewis, Gordon]], ''The Growth of the Modern West Indies'', New York, 1972.</ref>

Nevertheless, Adams' fundamental belief in liberal policies meant that he tended to support pro-working class efforts once he was installed in the House, and continued to espouse many of O’Neale's causes after the man's passing in 1936. Adams therefore consolidated his position by subsuming the fragmented Labour movement he had shattered, and marrying them to his own liberal ideals. It is this face that embraced the workers' rebellions of 1937 and lead to the establishment of the [[Barbados Labour Party]] in 1938.<ref name="F.A. Hoyos 1974"/> Adams was president of the [[Barbados Workers' Union]] (BWU) from 1941 to 1954, and was involved in the lowering of the exclusive income qualification in 1942. By 1949, governmental control was wrested from the planters. 

In 1952, Adams became a political enemy of [[Billy Strachan]], a Jamaican communist and former Royal Air Force pilot who went onto become a pioneer of Black civil rights in Britain. Adams ordered Strachan to disband the London branch of the Caribbean Labour Congress to disband, an organisation which Strachan was then the leader of. However, the branch voted overwhelmingly in favour of continuing their activities and ignored Adams' demand to disband demand.<ref name=":9">((Cite book |last=Horsley |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hew9zQEACAAJ |title=Billy Strachan 1921–1988 RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer, Legal Administrator, Internationalist and Above All Caribbean Man |publisher=[[Caribbean Labour Solidarity]] |year=2019 |location=London |page=17 |language=en |issn=2055-7035 |access-date=8 May 2023))</ref> In further defiance of Adams, Strachan and fellow communist activist [[Ferdinand Smith]] conducted a speaking tour of the Caribbean.<ref name=":9" />

Adams became the first Premier of Barbados in 1953 and additionally [[Minister of Finance of Barbados|Minister of Finance]] in 1954. Four years later he [[1958 West Indies federal elections|became]] the [[Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation]], defeating [[Ashford Sinanan]] by two votes. (Sinanan went on to serve as Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad's [[Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)|Democratic Labour Party]].) Adams served this role from 1958 to 1962; Barbados was one of the ten provinces of the West Indies Federation, an organisation doomed by nationalistic attitudes and by the fact that its members, as British colonies, held limited legislative power.

Yet he retained his reputation for conservatism through his support of the [[Monarch of Barbados|monarchy]]. His leaderships's failure to form unions such as the BWU and his rejection of attempts to speed up the push for Independence was used by his opponents as evidence that he was no longer in touch with the needs of his country. [[Errol Walton Barrow]], a fervent reformer, became the new people's advocate. Barrow had left the BLP and formed the [[Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)|Democratic Labour Party]] (DLP) as the social democrat alternative to Adams' liberal government, one that cleaved more closely to Labour's disruptive traditions. As such, Barrow instituted many progressive social welfare focused on demolishing long-standing class barriers, including free education for all Barbadians, and the School Meals system, the latter being vehemently derided by Adams himself. By 1961, Barrow had replaced Adams as Premier and the DLP controlled the government.

==Personal life==
Adams was married to Grace Thorne (1904-1990) in 1929 at St. John's Church. Their only child, Tom, himself won the Barbados Scholarship and attended Oxford to become a lawyer. [[Tom Adams (politician)|Tom Adams]] was elected as Barbados' second [[Prime Minister of Barbados|Prime Minister]] in 1976.

==Legacy==

[[Grantley Adams International Airport]], formerly Seawell Airport, located in [[Christ Church, Barbados]], was named after the former Premier in 1976. A statue in honour of Adams is located in front of Government Headquarters at Bay Street, St. Michael.

Adams is one of Barbados' [[Barbadian national heroes|National Heroes]].<ref name=Pocket/> He was the father of Barbados' second Prime Minister following independence, the late [[Tom Adams (politician)|J. M. G. "Tom" Adams]].

Adams was buried in Bridgetown, Barbados, at the churchyard of the [[Anglican Church of Barbados|Anglican]] [[Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels]] on Saint Michael's Row.

The former home of Adams, located on Roebuck Street, Bridgetown, functions as the headquarters of the Barbados Labour Party political group.((citation needed|date=April 2018)) Adams is featured on the front of the Barbados $100 bill,<ref name=Pocket/> popularly referred to as a "Grantley".

==See also==
* [[Politics of Barbados]]
* [[List of Prime Ministers of Barbados|List of Premiers/Prime Ministers of Barbados]]

==Further reading==
* F. A. Hoyos: ''The Rise of West Indian Democracy: The Life and Times of Sir Grantley Adams'', Advocate Press (1963)

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120331162335/http://www.caricom.org/jsp/projects/personalities/sir_grantley_herbert.jsp?menu=projects Sir Grantley Herbert Adams biography] The Caribbean Community secretariat
 
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