BERMUDA NATIONAL HEROES DAY

"The National Hero designation is a lifetime honour that is bestowed, and once a person is named as a National Hero he or she will be a National Hero forever."

Bermuda’s inaugural National Hero was Dame Louis Browne-Evans; the first black female MP and the island’s first female Attorney General.

Others who have been subsequently honoured are:

•  Gladys Carlyon de Courcy Morrell,
• Sir Edward Trenton Richards,
• Dr Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon,
• Dr Pauulu Kamarakafego,
• Sir Henry James Tucker,
• Mary Prince, and
• Sir John Swan.