{"id":2321,"date":"2017-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:58:20","slug":"hector-wynter-rhodes-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/hector-wynter-rhodes-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Hector Wynter, \u201cthe Wolmerian,\u201d Rhodes Scholar 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style id=\"wt-page\">\n@import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Cinzel:wght@600&family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap\");\n.wt-page { --maroon:#5C0E14; --gold:#C9A24A; --cream:#F8F1E1; --ink:#1A1A1A; --line:#D9CFB8;\n  background:var(--cream); color:var(--ink); font-family:\"EB Garamond\",Georgia,serif; font-size:20px; line-height:1.55; }\n.wt-page * { box-sizing:border-box; }\n.wt-page a { color:var(--maroon); }\n.wt-page .wrap { width:min(760px, calc(100% - 40px)); 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}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"wt-page\">\n  <section class=\"hero\"><div class=\"wrap\">\n    <p class=\"eyebrow\">Profile<\/p>\n    <h1>Hector Wynter, \u201cthe Wolmerian,\u201d Rhodes Scholar 1949<\/h1>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n  <section><div class=\"wrap\">\n      <p>The Jamaica Observer of 24 March 2017, \u201cRhodes Scholars of the era,\u201d wrote: \u201cFirstly, there was the Wolmerian, Hector Wynter of Brentford Road, who won the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in 1949 and graduated with a Master of Arts in languages and later became a Government Senator and Minister of State.\u201d<\/p>\n      <p>The Daily Gleaner of 22 June 1981, in a scan held by the National Library of Jamaica, recorded Don Brice naming Hector Wynter, editor of the Gleaner, among illustrious old boys at a Wolmer\u2019s Old Boys\u2019 dinner for Prime Minister Seaga.<\/p>\n      <h2>Sources<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"rule\"><\/div>\n      <ul class=\"src wt-sources\">\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2017\/03\/24\/rhodes-scholars-of-the-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica Observer, 24 March 2017<\/a><\/li>\n        <li>UNESCO CV (Rhodes 1949; Wolmer\u2019s)<\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/nlj.gov.jm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bn_seaga_epg_038.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Gleaner, 22 June 1981 \u2014 NLJ scan, \u201cSeaga trophy for Wolmer\u2019s\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Hector Wynter, \u201cthe Wolmerian,\u201d Rhodes Scholar 1949 The Jamaica Observer of 24 March 2017, \u201cRhodes Scholars of the era,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}