Hugh Springer

Sir Hugh Worrell Springer GCMG CBE (22 June 1913 – 14 April 1994) was the organiser and first General Secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union and Barbados' third native Governor-General. By an act of Parliament in 1998, Springer was named as one of the ten National Heroes of Barbados.

Springer received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1976.

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