In 1986, she received the Order of Roraima of Guyana (OR), and Dolphin was also awarded the Golden Arrow of Achievement and the Cacique of Honor (CCH).

Also at Queen's College, the Lynette De Weever Dolphin Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts was named after her.

[4] The second of six[4] or nine children,[1] she spent her first nine years in the village of De Willem near Windsor Forest on West Coast Demerara.

[1][4][a] After her mother died in 1936, Lynette and her sister lived at the household of Valerie Fraser (later Rodway), who would become a good friend.

[1] She taught music at the Queen's College in Guyana from 1943 to 1969, where she put on productions, like Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and led the school's choirs in competitions.

[4] She worked for the government for 60 years, 25 of which was as the chair of the Department of Culture[8] beginning in 1966, when Guyana won its independence from the United Kingdom.

[4] Other disciplines for which she was responsible include music, speech and drama, literature, cultural festivals and historical awareness.

[1] The Umana Yana was built for the Non-Aligned Movement, which was a political and diplomatic organization that held its first meeting in Guyana in 1971.

[1][11] Dolphin was presented with the medal on May 8, 1859, and was told: Your service as a teacher has been most satisfactory, but it is in the field of music that your contribution to the country has been outstanding.

By Command of the Queen conveyed to me through Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, I present to you the Insignia of a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.She became an honorary local representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) in 1965.

[c] Having died on February 8, 2000, her memorial service, attended by President Bharrat Jagdeo and other public figures, was held at The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Brickdam, Georgetown.

As some, like her, remained spinsters and turned to teaching, they were able to devote their talents totally to social and educational pursuits where their influence spread far and wide.

"[14] The Lynette De Weever Dolphin Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts at Queen's College, Guyana was named after her.