John Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams
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John Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (1931 - 1985) known better as "Tom" Adams, he was the only son of Grantley Adams (a lawyer and the first and only Prime Minister of the Federation of the British West Indies) and Grace née Thorne.
He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, from which he won a Barbados Scholarship to Magdalen College of the University of Oxford. He served as the Prime Minister of Barbados between 1976 and 1985.
The six-story building in Bridgetown which houses the Central Bank of Barbados is today known as the Tom Adams Financial Centre in his honour.
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| Preceded by: Errol Barrow |
Prime Minister of Barbados 1976 – 1985 |
Succeeded by: Harold Bernard St. John |
