{"id":2169,"date":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:04:41","slug":"sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Florizel Glasspole, old boy and Governor-General \u2014 Guardian obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2000\/dec\/19\/guardianobituaries\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Florizel Augustus Glasspole, Governor-General of Jamaica. Official portrait, Jamaica Information Service\" class=\"wp-image-2221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sir-florizel-glasspole-guardian-obituary-2000-feat-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sir Florizel Augustus Glasspole, Governor-General of Jamaica. Official portrait, Jamaica Information Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>December 19, 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Sir Florizel Glasspole recorded that he \u201cwas educated at Wolmer\u2019s high school for boys.\u201d He was Governor-General of Jamaica from 1973 to 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glasspole House, the joint sixth-form block completed in 1984, is named for him. He is one of the sixteen inducted into the Hall of Fame on 2 October 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2000\/dec\/19\/guardianobituaries\">The Guardian<\/a>, December 19, 2000. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by The Guardian December 19, 2000 The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Sir Florizel Glasspole recorded that he \u201cwas educated at Wolmer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-obituaries","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}