Vivian Lancaster Virtue FRSA FRSL (13 November 1911 – 17 December 1998) was a Jamaican poet, translator and broadcaster who moved to England in 1960.
[1][2] Virtue was born in KingstonJamaica, was educated there and was employed by the Jamaican Department of Public Works.
[3] Virtue translated poetry by José-Maria de Heredia from French into English as well as poems in Spanish by other Caribbean and Latin American poets.
On the occasion of the Commonwealth Arts Festival in 1965, he was commissioned to write a poem in honour of Marcus Garvey.
Virtue died in London in 1998 at the age of 87 after an extended illness from heart disease and bronchopneumonia.