Laurence R. Fyfe

Lawrence Dalzelle Riky Fyfe[1] (4 August 1845 – 9 May 1892) was a British civil servant in the Colonial Secretary's Office in Jamaica who, with Augustus Constantine Sinclair, compiled the annual Handbook of Jamaica, first published in 1881.

Fyfe appears to have started his civil service career as a second-class clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office.

[5] He progressed rapidly and in 1885 was appointed by the Governor of Jamaica to be secretary to a commission to report into the system of elementary education on the island.

[7] Fyfe was the joint compiler with Augustus Constantine Sinclair (died 1891), head of the Government Printing Office, of the first editions of the long-running Handbook of Jamaica, from 1881.

[9] In 1889 they produced a history of Jamaica during the governorship of Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1883–89) which, typically of their historical work, concentrated on chronology and fact-based accounts rather than analysis.

Jamaica at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886 , by C. Washington Eves which reprinted Fyfe and Sinclair's report on the Jamaican exhibits.