The Legislative Council consisted of a mixture of appointed and elected members.
[2] Between 1797 and 1925, Trinidad was directly ruled by Britain as a crown colony with no elected representation.
This was unlike the situation in the rest of the British West Indies where an elected Assembly was the norm.
Following an investigative visit to the Caribbean by Major E. F. L. Wood (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies) between December 13, 1921 and February 14, 1922, a recommendation was made to include elected members.
The Treaty of Capitulation of 18 February 1797 surrendered control of Spanish-administered Trinidad to the British.