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About Me
- Enrico A Stennett
- Enrico Stennett was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1926. Enrico grew up in Maroon Town, St James, Jamaica. From early childhood he realised he had a privileged and unusual life from the rest of his village community, a situation that clearly depicted the feudal society in Jamaica which gave rise to class divisions. He left Jamaica in 1947 on the Ship the Windrush to travel to England. At the age of 19, where within months he became a member of the League for Coloured People, an organisation led by the late Doctor Harold Moody; he also became a member of the Coloured Workers Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, led by the late Mr Robert Victor Mathews. In 1950, with his British wife Margaret, he founded the Cosmopolitan Social Society, along with his Jewish friend Stanley Freeman. This organisation intended to cater for the social well-being of the Caribbean people who were arriving into the country at the time, and also various Caribbean ex-Army and ex-RAF personnel, who had not returned home as most did at the end of the war and were living in London.