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Final respects for Sir Fenton
(TT Newsday) Barbados – In paying tribute to his father Sir Fenton Harcourt Wilworth Ramsahoye, son Bernard spoke about the distinguished lawyer’s upbringing in Guyana, his place of birth.
Sir Fenton Ramsahoye
The funeral took place at the Chapel of Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens, Barbados, on Saturday.
Ramsahoye, 89, had been living in Barbados for the past ten years. He died last week Thursday, but lived and worked in Trinidad and Tobago (TT) for many years, from where he argued several cases of public importance before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
He was Guyana’s first attorney general. Two attorneys from TT attended the funeral – Hendrickson Seunath, SC (former vice president of the Law Association of TT) and Anand Ramlogan, SC (former attorney general). Seunath said he was extremely disappointed more attorneys did not turn up, for Ramsahoye was an icon in the legal profession to many senior and junior attorneys in TT.
“He was the man who took the poor man’s case to the Privy Council without a fee,” Seunath said.
Seunath said Bernard, one of two sons, in eulogising his father, said Ramsahoye worked very hard as a boy in Guyana, educating himself and then going to England.
Bernard is a professor of medicine based in the United Kingdom.
Former chief justice and attorney general of Barbados Sir David Simmonds also attended.
Ramsahoye was cremated and his ashes are to be buried in his homeland.
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