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{{Short description|British Virgin Islander politician (1929–1995)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|name = H. Lavity Stoutt
|name = H. Lavity Stoutt
|image = Image:Hamilton Lavity Stoutt.jpg
|image = Hamilton Lavity Stoutt.jpg
|honorific-suffix =
|honorific-suffix =
|office = Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
|office = [[Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands]]
|monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
|monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
|governor =
|governor = Sir [[Ian Thomson (Fiji)|Ian Thomson]]
|term_start = 14 April 1967
|term_start = 14 April 1967
|term_end = 2 June 1971
|term_end = 2 June 1971
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|successor = [[Willard Wheatley]]
|successor = [[Willard Wheatley]]
|monarch2 =
|monarch2 =
|governor2 =
|governor2 = [[James Alfred Davidson]], [[David Robert Barwick]]
|term_start2 = 12 November 1979
|term_start2 = 12 November 1979
|term_end2 = 11 November 1983
|term_end2 = 11 November 1983
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|successor2 = [[Cyril Romney]]
|successor2 = [[Cyril Romney]]
|monarch3 =
|monarch3 =
|governor3 =
|governor3 = [[Mark Herdman]], [[Peter Penfold]]
|term_start3 = 17 November 1986
|term_start3 = 17 November 1986
|term_end3 = 14 May 1995
|term_end3 = 14 May 1995
|predecessor3 = [[Cyril Romney]]
|predecessor3 = [[Cyril Romney]]
|successor3 = [[Ralph T. O'Neal]]
|successor3 = [[Ralph T. O'Neal]]
|birth_date = {{date|1929|3|7}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|3|7|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Tortola]], [[British Virgin Islands]]
|birth_place = [[Tortola]], [[British Virgin Islands]]
|death_date = {{date|1995|5|14}}
|death_date = {{death date and age |1995|5|14 |1929|3|7 |df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Tortola]], [[British Virgin Islands]]
|death_place = [[Tortola]], [[British Virgin Islands]]
|party = [[United Party (British Virgin Islands)|United Party]], [[Virgin Islands Party]]
|party = [[United Party (British Virgin Islands)|United Party]]<br>[[Virgin Islands Party]]
|spouse =
|spouse = {{marriage|[[Hilda E. Stoutt]]|1956}}
|children =
}}
}}


'''Hamilton Lavity Stoutt''' (7 March 1929 &ndash; 14 May 1995) was the first and longest serving [[Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands|Chief Minister]] of the [[British Virgin Islands]], winning five [[Elections in the British Virgin Islands|general elections]] ([[British Virgin Islands general election, 1967|1967]], [[British Virgin Islands general election, 1979|1979]], [[British Virgin Islands general election, 1986|1986]], [[British Virgin Islands general election, 1991|1991]] and [[British Virgin Islands general election, 1995|1995]]) and serving three non-consecutive terms of office from 1967 to 1971, again from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 until his death in 1995. He also served as a parliamentarian in the [[British Virgin Islands Legislative Council|Legislative Council]] from 1957 until 1967 prior to the adoption of the [[Constitution of the British Virgin Islands|1967 constitution]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/567789/H-Lavity-Stoutt|title=Lavity Stoutt|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=2012-03-04}}</ref> and at the time of his death was thought to be the longest serving Parliamentarian in the Caribbean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--h-lavity-stoutt-1620711.html|title=OBITUARY : H. Lavity Stoutt|publisher=[[The Independent]]|date=23 May 1995}}</ref> He was a founder of and the leader of the [[United Party (British Virgin Islands)|United Party]], but after splitting from the party in 1971 went on to found the [[Virgin Islands Party]].
'''Hamilton Lavity Stoutt''' (7 March 1929 &ndash; 14 May 1995) was a British Virgin Islander politician and the first and longest serving [[Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands]]. He won five [[Elections in the British Virgin Islands|general elections]] ([[1967 British Virgin Islands general election|1967]], [[1979 British Virgin Islands general election|1979]], [[1986 British Virgin Islands general election|1986]], [[1990 British Virgin Islands general election|1990]] and [[1995 British Virgin Islands general election|1995]]) and serving three non-consecutive terms of office from 1967 to 1971, again from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 until his death in 1995.


==Biography==
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Since Stoutt's death in 1995, a [[Public holidays in the British Virgin Islands|public holiday]] has been declared annually in his memory on his birthday, 7 March.
===Early life===
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Stoutt was born on 7 March 1929 in Long Bay, [[Tortola]]. He was the eighth child of Isaiah and Iallia Stoutt. He married Hilda E. Stoutt in 1956 and had three sons and three daughters. He was a staunch [[Methodist]], and served as both a Sunday school superintendent and a lay preacher.<ref name="indy" />


===Career===
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The [[H. Lavity Stoutt Community College]] in [[Tortola]] bears his name. Stoutt himself left school after his primary school education, and obituary writers have suggested that it was his own lack of a formal education which so strongly inspired him to create and promote opportunities for BVIslanders to further their own educations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--h-lavity-stoutt-1620711.html|title=OBITUARY : H. Lavity Stoutt|publisher=[[The Independent]]|date=23 May 1995}}</ref>
Stoutt served as a parliamentarian in the [[British Virgin Islands Legislative Council|Legislative Council]] from 1957 until 1967 prior to the adoption of the [[Constitution of the British Virgin Islands|1967 constitution]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/567789/H-Lavity-Stoutt|title=Lavity Stoutt|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> and at the time of his death was thought to be the longest serving Parliamentarian in the Caribbean.<ref name="indy">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--h-lavity-stoutt-1620711.html|title=OBITUARY : H. Lavity Stoutt|publisher=[[The Independent]]|date=23 May 1995}}</ref> He was a founder of and the leader of the [[United Party (British Virgin Islands)|United Party]], but after splitting from the party in 1971 went on to found the [[Virgin Islands Party]].


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Since Stoutt's death in 1995, a [[Public holidays in the British Virgin Islands|public holiday]] in the [[British Virgin Islands]] has been declared annually on the first Monday in the month of March in memory of his birthday.
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During his lifetime, Lavity Stoutt was extremely fond of the quote from [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 29:18 - "''Where there is no vision, the people perish''", a phrase he would recite frequently when arguing in favour of development projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stouttforbvi.com/2011/02/the-fundamental-principles/|title=Stoutt for BVI|accessdate=2012-03-04}}</ref>

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The [[H. Lavity Stoutt Community College]] in [[Tortola]] bears his name. Stoutt himself left school after his primary school education, and obituary writers have suggested that it was his own lack of a formal education which so strongly inspired him to create and promote opportunities for BVIslanders to further their own educations.<ref name="indy" />

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During his lifetime, Lavity Stoutt was extremely fond of the quote from [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 29:18 — "''Where there is no vision, the people perish''", a phrase he would recite frequently when arguing in favour of development projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stouttforbvi.com/2011/02/the-fundamental-principles/|title=Stoutt for BVI|access-date=2012-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610213231/http://www.stouttforbvi.com/2011/02/the-fundamental-principles/|archive-date=10 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Electoral history==
==Electoral history==
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! align="center" width="75"|Year || align="center" width="100"|District || align="center" width="150"|Party || align="center" width="75"|Votes || align="center" width="75"|Percentage || align="center" width="75"|Winning/losing margin || align="center" width="75"|Result
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| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1957|1957]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1957 British Virgin Islands general election|1957]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1960|1960]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1960 British Virgin Islands general election|1960]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1963|1963]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|215 || align="center"|68.0% || align="center"|+114 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1963 British Virgin Islands general election|1963]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Non-party election || align="center"|215 || align="center"|68.0% || align="center"|+114 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1967|1967]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|BVI United Party || align="center"|221 || align="center"|65.4% || align="center"|+54 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1967 British Virgin Islands general election|1967]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|BVI United Party || align="center"|221 || align="center"|65.4% || align="center"|+54 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1971|1971]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1971 British Virgin Islands general election|1971]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center"|-- || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1975|1975]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|334 || align="center"|75.1% || align="center"|+223 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1975 British Virgin Islands general election|1975]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|334 || align="center"|75.1% || align="center"|+223 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
|-
| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1979|1979]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|328 || align="center"|57% || align="center"|+72 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1979 British Virgin Islands general election|1979]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|328 || align="center"|57% || align="center"|+72 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
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| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1983|1983]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|421 || align="center"|53.0% || align="center"|+85 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1983 British Virgin Islands general election|1983]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|421 || align="center"|53.0% || align="center"|+85 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
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| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1986|1986]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|416 || align="center"|64.9% || align="center"|+203 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1986 British Virgin Islands general election|1986]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|416 || align="center"|64.9% || align="center"|+203 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
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| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1990|1990]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|520 || align="center"|85.8% || align="center"|+464 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1990 British Virgin Islands general election|1990]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|520 || align="center"|85.8% || align="center"|+464 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|-
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| align="center"|[[British Virgin Islands general election, 1995|1995]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|489 || align="center"|68.3% || align="center"|+292 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
| align="center"|[[1995 British Virgin Islands general election|1995]] || align="center"|1st District || align="center"|Virgin Islands Party || align="center"|489 || align="center"|68.3% || align="center"|+292 || align="center" style="background: #90EE90;"|Won
|}
|}


Lavity Stoutt's percentage of the votes in the 1990 general election remain records for a district seat in the British Virgin Islands (the margin of victory was a record at the time, but has since been surpassed). Stoutt's 11 electoral victories are also a record. Stoutt's 38 years as a parliamentarian was a record, but was surpassed by [[Ralph T. O'Neal|Ralph O'Neal]] in late 2013.<ref>Lavity Stoutt died shortly after the commencement of his 11th term. But during the early part of Lavity Stoutt's political career electoral terms only lasted 3 years (since 1967 they have lasted 4 years), both which account for how Stoutt served more terms than O'Neal, but O'Neal's career as a legislator was longer. Stoutt's was first elected in April 1957 and died in May 1995, and so served just under 38 years and 2 months. O'Neal was first elected on 1 September 1975, and so passed Lavity Stoutt on or about 1 November 2013.</ref>
Lavity Stoutt's percentage of the votes in the 1990 general election remain records for a district seat in the British Virgin Islands (the margin of victory was a record at the time, but has since been surpassed). Stoutt's 11 electoral victories are also a record. Stoutt's 38 years as a parliamentarian was a record, but was surpassed by [[Ralph T. O'Neal|Ralph O'Neal]] in late 2013.<ref>Lavity Stoutt died shortly after the commencement of his 11th term. But during the early part of Lavity Stoutt's political career electoral terms only lasted 3 years (since 1967 they have lasted 4 years), both which account for how Stoutt served more terms than O'Neal, but O'Neal's career as a legislator was longer. Stoutt's was first elected in April 1957 and died in May 1995, and so served just under 38 years and 2 months. O'Neal was first elected on 1 September 1975, and so passed Lavity Stoutt on or about 1 November 2013.</ref>


==Personal life==
==Political offices==

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Stoutt was born on 7 March 1929 in Long Bay, [[Tortola]]. He was the eighth child of Isaiah and Iallia Stoutt. He was married once, and had two sons and three daughters. He was a staunch [[Methodist]], and served as both a Sunday school superintendent and a lay preacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--h-lavity-stoutt-1620711.html|title=OBITUARY : H. Lavity Stoutt|publisher=[[The Independent]]|date=23 May 1995}}</ref>

==Political Offices==
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"Stoutt" redirects here. For the English footballer, see Steve Stoutt. For a similar term, see Stout (disambiguation).

The Honourable
H. Lavity Stoutt
Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
In office
14 April 1967 – 2 June 1971
MonarchElizabeth II
GovernorSir Ian Thomson
Preceded byNew office
Succeeded byWillard Wheatley
In office
12 November 1979 – 11 November 1983
GovernorJames Alfred Davidson, David Robert Barwick
Preceded byWillard Wheatley
Succeeded byCyril Romney
In office
17 November 1986 – 14 May 1995
GovernorMark Herdman, Peter Penfold
Preceded byCyril Romney
Succeeded byRalph T. O'Neal
Personal details
Born(1929-03-07)7 March 1929
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Died14 May 1995(1995-05-14) (aged 66)
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Political partyUnited Party
Virgin Islands Party
Spouse
​
(m. 1956)​

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt (7 March 1929 – 14 May 1995) was a British Virgin Islander politician and the first and longest serving Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands. He won five general elections (1967, 1979, 1986, 1990 and 1995) and serving three non-consecutive terms of office from 1967 to 1971, again from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 until his death in 1995.

Biography

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Early life

[edit]

Stoutt was born on 7 March 1929 in Long Bay, Tortola. He was the eighth child of Isaiah and Iallia Stoutt. He married Hilda E. Stoutt in 1956 and had three sons and three daughters. He was a staunch Methodist, and served as both a Sunday school superintendent and a lay preacher.[1]

Career

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Stoutt served as a parliamentarian in the Legislative Council from 1957 until 1967 prior to the adoption of the 1967 constitution,[2] and at the time of his death was thought to be the longest serving Parliamentarian in the Caribbean.[1] He was a founder of and the leader of the United Party, but after splitting from the party in 1971 went on to found the Virgin Islands Party.

Since Stoutt's death in 1995, a public holiday in the British Virgin Islands has been declared annually on the first Monday in the month of March in memory of his birthday.

The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola bears his name. Stoutt himself left school after his primary school education, and obituary writers have suggested that it was his own lack of a formal education which so strongly inspired him to create and promote opportunities for BVIslanders to further their own educations.[1]

During his lifetime, Lavity Stoutt was extremely fond of the quote from Proverbs 29:18 — "Where there is no vision, the people perish", a phrase he would recite frequently when arguing in favour of development projects.[3]

Electoral history

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H. Lavity Stoutt electoral history
Year District Party Votes Percentage Winning/losing margin Result
1957 1st District Non-party election -- -- -- Won
1960 1st District Non-party election -- -- -- Won
1963 1st District Non-party election 215 68.0% +114 Won
1967 1st District BVI United Party 221 65.4% +54 Won
1971 1st District Virgin Islands Party -- -- -- Won
1975 1st District Virgin Islands Party 334 75.1% +223 Won
1979 1st District Virgin Islands Party 328 57% +72 Won
1983 1st District Virgin Islands Party 421 53.0% +85 Won
1986 1st District Virgin Islands Party 416 64.9% +203 Won
1990 1st District Virgin Islands Party 520 85.8% +464 Won
1995 1st District Virgin Islands Party 489 68.3% +292 Won

Lavity Stoutt's percentage of the votes in the 1990 general election remain records for a district seat in the British Virgin Islands (the margin of victory was a record at the time, but has since been surpassed). Stoutt's 11 electoral victories are also a record. Stoutt's 38 years as a parliamentarian was a record, but was surpassed by Ralph O'Neal in late 2013.[4]

Political offices

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Political offices
Preceded by
New office
 Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
1967–1971 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
1979–1983 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
1986–1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of the Opposition
1971-1975 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of the Opposition
1983-1986 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Wilfred W. Smith
 Member for the 1st District
1957-1995 		Succeeded by
Angel Smith

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c "OBITUARY : H. Lavity Stoutt". The Independent. 23 May 1995.
  2. ^ "Lavity Stoutt". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Stoutt for BVI". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  4. ^ Lavity Stoutt died shortly after the commencement of his 11th term. But during the early part of Lavity Stoutt's political career electoral terms only lasted 3 years (since 1967 they have lasted 4 years), both which account for how Stoutt served more terms than O'Neal, but O'Neal's career as a legislator was longer. Stoutt's was first elected in April 1957 and died in May 1995, and so served just under 38 years and 2 months. O'Neal was first elected on 1 September 1975, and so passed Lavity Stoutt on or about 1 November 2013.
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