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LEEWARD ISLANDS

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LEEWARD ISLANDS , a See also:

group in the See also:West Indies. They derive their name from being less exposed to the prevailing N.E. See also:trade See also:wind than the adjacent Windward Islands. They are the most northerly of the Lesser See also:Antilles, and See also:form a curved See also:chain stretching S.W. from Puerto Rico to meet St See also:Lucia, the most northerly of the Windward Islands. They consist of the Virgin Islands, with St Kitts, See also:Antigua, See also:Montserrat, See also:Guadeloupe, See also:Dominica, See also:Martinique and their various dependencies. The Virgin Islands are owned by See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Denmark, See also:Holland having St Eustatius, with .Saba, and See also:part of St See also:Martin. See also:France possesses Guadeloupe, Martinique, St See also:Bartholomew and the See also:remainder of St Martin. The See also:rest of the islands are See also:British, and (with the exception of See also:Sombrero, a small See also:island used only as a lighthouse-station) form, under one See also:governor, a See also:colony divided into five presidencies, namely: Antigua (with See also:Barbuda and See also:Redonda), St Kitts (with See also:Nevis and See also:Anguilla), Dominica, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands. See also:Total pop. (1901) 127,536. There is one federal executive See also:council nominated by the See also:crown, and one federal legislative council—ten nominated and ten elected members. Of the latter, four are chosen by the unofficial members of the See also:local legislative council of Antigua, two by those of Dominica, and four by the non-See also:official members of the local legislative council of St Kitts-Nevis. The federal legislative council meets once annually, usually at St See also:John, Antigua.

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JOSEPH See also:SHERIDAN (1814–1873), Irish journalist and author, was See also:born of an old Huguenot See also:family at See also:Dublin on the 28th of See also:August 1814. He entered Trinity See also:College, Dublin, in 1833. At an See also:early See also:age he had given See also:proof of See also:literary See also:talent, and in 1837 he joined the See also:staff of the Dublin University See also:Magazine, of which he became later editor and proprietor. In 1837 he produced the Irish ballad Phaudhrig Croohore. which was shortly afterwards followed by a second, Shamus O'Brien, successfully recited in the See also:United States by See also:Samuel See also:Lover. In 1839 he became proprietor of the Warder, a Dublin newspaper, and, after purchasing the Evening Packet and a large See also:interest in the Dublin Evening See also:Mail, he combined the three papers under the See also:title the Evening Mail, a weekly reprint from which was . issued as the Warder. After the See also:death of his wife in 1858 he lived in retirement, and his best See also:work was produced at this See also:period of his See also:life. He wrote some See also:clever novels, of a sensational See also:order, in which his vigorous See also:imagination and his Irish love of the supernatural have full See also:play. He died in Dublin on the 7th of See also:February 1873. His best-known novels are The See also:House by the See also:Churchyard (1863) and See also:Uncle See also:Silas, a See also:Tale of Bartram Haugh (1864). The See also:Purcell Papers, Irish stories dating from his college See also:clays, were edited with a memoir of the author by A. P. See also:Graves in 1880.

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