Clarence Seignoret

Sir Clarence Henry Augustus Seignoret GCB OBE (25 February 1919 – 5 May 2002)[1] was the third President of Dominica.

[2] Born in Roseau,[3] Seignoret was educated at the Dominica Grammar School and at college in Saint Lucia before he started working as a civil servant in Dominica from 1936.

From 1958 to 1960 he undertook an international public service course in Oxford University.

On returning to Dominica he resumed his governmental career, acting on various occasions as first Secretary to the Cabinet and substitute to the President.

In the 1966 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[4] and in 1985 he was knighted with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.