Isaac Glanville Fonseca

Isaac Glanville Fonseca OBE was a British Virgin Islands political figure around the time of the restoration of democracy in 1950.

Fonseca was one of the community leaders who participated in the "march of 1949" and later went on to become one of the longest serving legislators in the British Virgin Islands, winning a total of six general elections before retiring from politics.

Led by community leaders such as Isaac Fonseca and Carlton de Castro, a throng of over 1,500 British Virgin Islanders marched on the Administrator's office on 24 November 1949 and presented their grievances.

Between 1950 and 1967 elections were conducted on a non-party basis, and the Legislative Council functioned as a collection of wise men for the better guidance of the Territory.

[2] In 1967 further constitutional change occurred which introduced Ministerial Government and party politics into the British Virgin Islands.