Ernest Deighton Mottley Explained

Honorific Suffix:	CBE
Birth Date:	11 May 1907
Birth Place:	Barbados
Death Place:	Barbados
Known For:	Leader of the Barbados National Party, and first mayor of Bridgetown
Occupation:	Politician
Relations:	Mia Mottley (granddaughter)

Ernest Deighton Mottley CBE (11 May 1907 – 27 April 1973)^[1] was a Barbadian politician, leader of the Barbados National Party, and the first mayor of Bridgetown (1959).He was a member of the House of Assembly of Barbados from 1946 to 1971.^[2]

He was friends with Errol Barrow, though after the election of 1961, Mottley became Leader of the Opposition to Barrow's Barbados Labour Party government.^[3]

In 1962, Mottley was honoured as an Ordinary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for public services in Barbados.^{[4] [5]}

His granddaughter, Mia Mottley, became the first female Prime Minister of Barbados in 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ernest Deighton Mottley. Find a Grave. 7 March 2023.
2. Web site: The History . The Barbados Parliament . 5 March 2023.
3. Book: Mottley . Elton . Better Must Come . 2014 . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform . 149732467X.
4. Supplement to the London Gazette, 2 June 1962, p. 4329.
5. Web site: Biography Mia Amor Mottley. Caribbean Elections. 6 March 2023. 8 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211108213047/http://caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/biography/bios/mottley_mia.asp. dead.