Felix Veitch

Felix Gordon Veitch (1887 – July 4, 1946) was a Jamaican Baptist minister, medical practitioner and politician, representing first the Peoples Political Party founded by Marcus Garvey before serving as an Independent and then later for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in pre-independent Jamaica.

[2] Prior to the granting of adult suffrage in 1944, Veitch was a member of the former Legislative Council, representing the parish of Hanover between 1929 and 1944.

By the December 14, 1944 general election, he represented the Alexander Bustamante-led Jamaica Labour Party.

Veitch was elected to the House of Representatives from the constituency of Hanover Western, polling 3,200 votes in a crowded field against independents William Dickson (2,421), Walter Tomlinson (1,273), Henry Messam (1,196), and others.

By May 1945, Clement Aitcheson, the representative from Trelawny Northern was acting as Speaker, over a year before Veitch's death in July 1946.