- Patricia Symmonds
Dame Olga Patricia Symmonds, GCM, DBE (born
18 October 1925 ), best known as Patricia Symmonds, is a Barbadian politician, member of theSenate of Barbados and a former teacher.Symmonds is the only daughter of Algernon French Symmonds and his wife, Olga Harper. She is the elder sister of Barbadian diplomat, Algernon Washington Symmonds. She was educated at Queen's College, Barbados, and travelled to the
United Kingdom to study at theUniversity of Reading and theInstitute of Education .As a teacher from 1945-85, she was Deputy Principal of
The St. Michael School onSaint Michael, Barbados from 1963-76, then Principal of the school from 1976-85. She was a part-time lecturer and tutor at Cave Hill Campus from 1963-65. Since 1994, she has been a Senator of Barbados and was a member of thePrivy Council of Barbados from 1997 - 2000. She was knighted in 2000.ource
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