Monica Dacon

Monica Dacon
The Honourable
Dame Monica Jessie Dacon
DBE CMG
Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Acting
In office
3 June 2002 – 2 September 2002
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
Preceded by Charles Antrobus
Succeeded by Frederick Ballantyne
Personal details
Born 4 June 1934 (1934-06-04) (age 77)
Alma mater University of the West Indies

Dame Monica Jessie Dacon, née Sheen DBE, CMG (born 4 June 1934) is a former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines schoolteacher, educator and politician. She is the widow of the late parliamentarian, the Hon. St Clair Dacon.[1]

She attended The Girls' High School where she passed both the Cambridge School Certificate and the Cambridge Higher School Certificate. In 1952 she began teaching at her alma mater and the Boys’ Grammar School. She would return to the Girls' High School eleven years later having taught in two Trinidad and Tobago schools, before returning to St. Vincent to teach at the Bishop's College, Kingstown in 1966.

She was acting Principal of Bishop's College for a few months before going back to the Girls' High School where she remained for nearly fifteen years. She continued her studies and gained the St. Vincent Teachers' College Certificate in 1980 and two years later her Bachelor of Education degree from the University of the West Indies. On her return to St. Vincent she moved from secondary education to the tertiary level and became a lecturer at the St. Vincent Teachers' Training College.

She was appointed Deputy Governor General in 2001 when Sir Charles Antrobus was Governor General. She became acting Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, after the death of Charles Antrobus and until the appointment of Dr. Frederick Ballantyne as Governor General, on September 2, 2002. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours/Overseas and Diplomatic List.[2]

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Government offices
Preceded by
Charles Antrobus
Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Acting

2002
Succeeded by
Frederick Ballantyne

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