Emile Gumbs | |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Honorific-Suffix: | MHA |
Monarch2: | Elizabeth II |
Party: | Anguilla National Alliance |
2Namedata1: | Alastair Turner Baillie Geoffrey Owen Whittaker Brian George John Canty Alan William Shave |
Monarch1: | Elizabeth II |
Office1: | Chief Minister of Anguilla |
Successor1: | Hubert Hughes |
Birth Name: | Emile Rudolph Gumbs |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1928 |
Birth Place: | Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis |
Term Start1: | 12 March 1984 |
Term End1: | 16 March 1994 |
Term Start2: | 1 February 1977 |
Term End2: | 1 May 1980 |
Sir Emile Gumbs (18 March 1928 – 10 May 2018)[1] [2] was a politician from Anguilla. He served as the island territory's Chief Minister from 1 February 1977 to May 1980 and again from 12 March 1984 to 16 March 1994.[3]
He was the only person from Anguilla to have been knighted, having been made a Knight Bachelor in the 1994 New Year Honours. Emile Gumbs died on 10 May 2018 at the age of 90.