Leila F. James \u2014 later Tomlinson \u2014 is the first name on the 1929 official list of Wolmer\u2019s girls who won the Jamaica Girls\u2019 Scholarship: 1912, Bedford College, B.A. Honours, London. The souvenir, writing in 1930, already has the middle of the career: a post in the \u201cSchools Office,\u201d a spell teaching in Bermuda, and staff at Bethlehem Training College. The old-girls\u2019 roll prints both \u201cJames, Leila\u201d and \u201cTomlinson, Leila.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gleaner<\/em> of 3 July 2022 calls her \u201cthe first female Jamaica Scholar in 1912\u201d and says the award took her to the University of London. Henrice Altink\u2019s 2007 Society for Caribbean Studies paper, built from the Gleaner<\/em> and Legislative Council record, places the 1912 win as the first girls\u2019 scholarship for study at a university abroad, identifies her as African Jamaican, and reconstructs the 1920\u201321 storm over her dismissal as acting sub-examiner in the Education Department. A governor-appointed commission reported in February 1921 that the dismissal was unfair. The Council voted a year\u2019s salary and another civil-service post rather than reinstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: Wolmer\u2019s School Bi-Centennial Booklet, Jamaica Girls\u2019 Scholarship list<\/a>, 1929; Jamaica Gleaner, Civil servants \u2013 struggle for gender equality<\/a>, 3 July 2022; Henrice Altink, The Case of Miss Leila James B.A., Society for Caribbean Studies, 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leila F. James \u2014 later Tomlinson \u2014 is the first name on the 1929 official list of Wolmer\u2019s girls who […]<\/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-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","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=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n