Cecil Vernon Lindo
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| Cecil Vernon Lindo | |
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| Born | 1870 Falmouth, Jamaica |
| 💀Died | 1960 Devon House1960 |
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Cecil Vernon Lindo was a Jamaican financier and industrialist.
Early life[edit]
Cecil Lindo was born in 1870, in Falmouth, Jamaica, to Frederick Lindo and Grace Morales.[1]
Career[edit]
He migrated to Costa Rica at age 19 to join his older brothers, Howard and Robert, who had arrived in 1885 to work for Minor Cooper Keith, who was building a railroad from Limon to San Jose. He started working as a paymaster.
Cecil was Vice Consul of the United Kingdom in Limon, Costa Rica from 1896-1901.
In 1907, the brothers purchased Juan Viñas, a vast sugar and coffee farm from Federico Tinoco Granados. In 1908, the brothers founded the Florida Ice and Farm Company.
By 1912, the Lindo Brothers, all working as one were the owners of the largest banana farm in the world, 30,000 acres producing five million stems, which was sold to United Fruit Company for $5,000,000 that year. Soon after they became largest coffee and sugar producers in the country.[2][3]
In 1914, Lindo Bros. & Co. Ltd. was formed in Jamaica. In 1915 the brothers began planting bananas in Jamaica in partnership with their cousins, the deLisser Brothers.
In 1916 Lindo Bros & Co. bought Appleton Estate and J. Wray and Nephew Ltd. in 1917.[4]
In 1925 the Lindo Bros, in partnership with Allan Keeling, invested £1,000,000 in the establishment of the Bernard Lodge Central Sugar Factory.
In 1928, the Lindo Bros sold 56,600 acres of land in Jamaica to the United Fruit Company for £2,000,000, which at the time, was the largest transaction in the history of the Island. That year Cecil purchased Devon House from Reginald Melhado.[5]
Personal life[edit]
In 1903 he married Hilda Violet Lindo in Kingston, Jamaica.[citation needed] The couple had four children: Delores, Roy, Blanche and Frederick Cecil Lindo.
References[edit]
- ↑ Murchie, Anita Gregorio (1981). Imported Spices: A Study of Anglo-American Settlers in Costa Rica, 1821-1900. Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Department of Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ Fisheries, United States Congress House Committee on Merchant Marine and (1913). Proceedings of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries in the Investigation of Shipping Combinations Under House Resolution 587. U.S. Government Printing Office. Search this book on
- ↑ Grant, Colin (2010). Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539309-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2001-09-29). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Search this book on
- ↑ Shields, Enid (1991). Devon House Families. Ian Randle Publishers. ISBN 978-976-8100-02-3. Search this book on
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