{{Short description|Jamaican industrialist, planter and politician (1910–1962)}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Roy Lindo | honorific_suffix = JP | image = Roy & Percy Lindo.jpg | caption = Roy Lindo with his father Percy | birth_date = 1910 | birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica | death_date = {{Death year and age|1962|1910}} | death_place = New York City | political_party = Independent | father = Percy Lindo }} '''Roy Lindo''' (1910–1962) was a Jamaican industrialist, planter, political economist and politician.
== Early life == Roy Lindo was born in 1910 in Kingston, Jamaica, to Percy Lindo and Hilda Violet Lindo. He was educated at Temple Grove School and at Marlborough College.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Committee |first=West India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JsITBcRz70C&q=roy+lindo+jamaica |title=Chronicle |date=1963 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQp9vp2s_awC&q=roy+lindo+jamaica |title=Who's Who, Jamaica, British West Indies |date=1954 |publisher=Who's who (Jamaica) Limited |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == A farmer, political economist and legislator, Lindo was the last Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) for St Mary (1942–1944) and one of the five Independents who were successful in 1944 Jamaican general election, where he defeated the PNP's and the JLP's Cornelius McKenzie to become the Member of the House for St. Mary Eastern constituency.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Caine |first=Troy |date=2017-09-03 |title=It's a Dunn deal |url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/its-a-dunn-deal/ |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Jamaica Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hart |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adPXlf_ux3cC&dq=roy+lindo+jamaica&pg=PA169 |title=Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1938-1945 |date=1999 |publisher=Canoe Press, University of the West Indies |isbn=978-976-8125-33-0 |language=en}}</ref>
He was the owner of Roy D. Lindo Ltd., which traded in wines, cigars and general merchandise.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNApAQAAMAAJ&q=roy+lindo+director |title=The Year Book of the West Indies and Countries of the Caribbean |date=1952 |publisher=Thomas Skinner & Company, Limited |language=en}}</ref>
In 1945, Roy was appointed as a Member of the West India Committee.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Committee |first=West India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JsITBcRz70C&q=roy+lindo+west+india+committee |title=Chronicle |date=1963 |language=en}}</ref> He was a director of Soap & Edible Products Ltd., the largest manufacturer of coconut products in Jamaica.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7p73-ARAMlAC&q=soaps |title=The Handbook of Jamaica for ...: Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island Compiled from Official and Other Reliable Records |date=1947 |publisher=Government Print. Establishment |language=en}}</ref>
After their father's death in 1946, Roy and his brother Frederick became Co-Managing Directors of J. Wray and Nephew Ltd.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barty-King |first1=Hugh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zg1jAAAAMAAJ&q=roy+lindo+rum |title=Rum, Yesterday and Today |last2=Massel |first2=Anton |date=1983 |publisher=David & Charles Publishers |isbn=978-0-434-45280-4 |language=en}}</ref>
He owned several thousand acres of real estate in the Oracabessa area, where he sold Goldeneye to Ian Fleming and Firefly to Noël Coward.
Roy was Chairman of the Central Housing Authority and the Coconut Industry Board<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNApAQAAMAAJ&q=roy+lindo+director |title=The Year Book of the West Indies and Countries of the Caribbean |date=1952 |publisher=Thomas Skinner & Company, Limited |language=en}}</ref>
In 1957, Roy and his brother sold J. Wray and Nephew Ltd. to a syndicate led by Sir Harold Mitchell, 1st Baronet and the Henriques Brothers.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
He owned 1,400 acres in Cardiff Hall, Saint Ann which he turned into Jamaica's largest hotel and resort subdivision.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-12 |title=July 16 |url=http://digjamaica.com/m/our-past/this-day-in-our-past/july_this_day_in_our_past/july_16/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=diG Jamaica |language=en-US}}</ref>
He wrote articles in support of the West Indies Federation.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9I4eAQAAMAAJ&q=roy+lindo+development |title=The Crown Colonist |date=1948 |publisher=Crown Colonist |language=en}}</ref>
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