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Jamaican politician and labour leader (–)

Sir William Alexander Clarke BustamanteONHGBEPC (born William Alexander Clarke; 24 February – 6 August ) was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in , became the first prime minister of Jamaica.

Early life and education

He was born to Mary Clarke (née Wilson), a woman of mixed race, and her husband, Robert Constantine Clarke, the son of Robert Clarke, a White IrishCatholic planter, in Blenheim, Hanover.^[1] His grandmother, Elsie Clarke-Shearer, was also the grandmother of Norman Washington Manley.^[2]

William said that he took the surname Bustamante to honour a Spanish sea captain who he claims adopted him in his early years and took him to Spain where he was sent to school and later returned to Jamaica.^[3]

However, Bustamante did not leave Jamaica until , when he was 21 years old—and he left as part of the early Jamaican migration to Cuba, where employment opportuniti