Great Jamaican Teachers


Kent Newton Phillips


K N Phillips was one of the four gifted sons of

Henry Brown Phillips, schoolmaster, and his

wife, Hannah, née Colthirst.

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'Oh, these God-sent teachers . . . . of rural Jamaica, in those opportunity-starved years

of the early nineteen hundreds.'    

J. J. Mills - His own account of his life and times. (Kingston, 1969), page 41.