Maurice Bishop
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The Right Honourable Maurice Bishop |
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Bishop in Saxony, East Germany, on June 11, 1982
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Prime Minister of Grenada Under People's Revolutionary Government |
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In office 13 March 1979 – 16 October 1983 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Sir Paul Scoon |
| Deputy | Bernard Coard |
| Preceded by | Sir Eric Gairy |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Coard |
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Maurice Rupert Bishop 29 May 1944 Aruba |
| Died | 19 October 1983 (aged 39) Grenada |
| Nationality | Grenadian |
| Political party | New Jewel Movement |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Bishop (1966–1981) |
| Domestic partner | Jacqueline Creft |
| Children | Nadia (born 1969) John (born 1967) Vladimir Lenin (born 1978, died 1994) |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics King's College London |
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own government, and executed.
Bishop was born in Aruba to Grenadian parents, Rupert and Alimenta Bishop, and migrated with his parents to Grenada in 1950, when he was six years old. He was a pupil at Wesley Hall Primary School and after a year moved to St. George’s Roman Catholic Primary School, from where he went on scholarship to the Roman Catholic Presentation College. In high school, he won the Principal's Gold Medal for outstanding academic and general all-round ability. Leaving school in 1963, Bishop worked briefly as a civil servant at the Government Registry, before going to London to study law. He attended Gray's Inn and earned his law degree from the London School of Economics, University of London. He began post-graduate studies at King's College London but left this prior to being called to the bar in 1969, he practiced law in the UK for two years, co-founding a legal aid clinic and developing his interest in campaigns against racial discrimination, especially against West Indians in England.
Returning to Grenada, he became active in politics. In 1973, he became head of the Marxist New Jewel Movement (NJM) political party. He was elected to parliament, and for several years he held the position of leader of the opposition in the Grenadian House of Representatives, opposing the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy and his Grenada United Labour Party (GULP).
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