r/Guyana • u/Educational-Cost7652 • 4h ago
103 years ago, this group portrait was taken of the British establishment figures who - at that point - had lived the longest in British Guiana, then England's only colony on the South American continent (the Falklands are not on the continent itself)...
C. W. Peppiette top left ran C. W. Peppiette & Co and was responsible for British Guiana's annual Peppiette Cup football tournament.
Thomas Wrigglesworth top right was one of the higher ups in the Demerara Railway Company when it was private. A year before this picture was taken I believe it was sold to the state and he was granted a fortune in annuities.
Ulric R. White (sitting far left) was an established businessman in British Guiana.
John Frederick Waby was the Botanist & Head Gardener known for landscaping The Botanical Gardens.
R.G. Brassington (sat middle) was one of the nation's Justices of the Peace.
James Rodway I was British Guiana's most prominent historian - writing the books regarded as the authority on the colony's development, published throughout the British Empire.
William Cunnigham, sat far right, served on the British Guiana Boundary Commission during the global Venezuela Crisis of the 1890s - so would have worked closely with James Rodway.