Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, DBE (née Gibbs; 18 November 1921 – 6 April 2013) was the Governor of Grenada between 1968 and 1974.
She spent most of her adult life as a teacher and doctor of medicine in Trinidad and Tobago.
[3] Born in Crochu, Grenada, West Indies, Bynoe was educated at the village school, where her father, Thomas Joseph Gibbs, was headmaster and where her mother, sister and aunts had at one time or the other been teachers, and at St. Joseph's Convent, the island's only Roman Catholic Secondary School for girls.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1969.
[4] In 1990, she retired to continue her writing and to assist in the care of her granddaughters Olukemi and Nandi.