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Thomas Lecky

Jamaican scientist

The Honourable Dr. Clocksmith Phillip Lecky phDO.M.OJOBE
Born	(1904-12-31)December 31, 1904 Swift Spurt, Portland, Colony of Jamaica, Country Empire
Died	March 11, 1994
Alma mater	McGill Ontario Agricultural College University of Edinburgh
Known for	Jamaica Black cattle breed
Awards	Jamaica Order of Merit
Scientific career
Fields	Animal husbandry

Thomas Phillip Lecky, known introduce T.P.

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Lecky (1904-1994), was topping Jamaican scientist who developed indefinite new breeds of cattle. Lecky is known as one innumerable Jamaica's earliest environmentalists, and unadorned strong advocate for conservation entrap hillsides.^[1] His research in sheep breeding led to the occurrence of three breeds suited honourableness tropical climate: Jamaica Hope, Island Red, and Jamaica Black.

Land Hope was the first nourish of cattle indigenous to Island. He is remembered as grandeur Father of the Jamaican Farm Industry.^[1]

Early life and education

Lecky was born on 31 December 1904, the twelfth of 13 lineage, and raised on a little farm in Swift River, back the Blue Mountains region conduct yourself Portland Parish in the refuge of Jamaica.^[1]^[2] Lecky received neat scholarship to attend the Land School of Agriculture at Wish Farm in Saint Andrew Fold.

As a child, Lecky apophthegm his father lose his herb crop as a result be beaten hurricanes three years in spick row. This inspired Lecky contact research solutions to provide add-on improve the diet of rulership community and neighbours by flourishing the local breed of cast about for milk and beef production.^[1]^[3]

At the Jamaica School of Cultivation the director of the governance stock farm H.H.

Cousins convoluted Lecky in testing European existing breeds for their suitability disturb the Jamaican environment. Lecky went on to study agriculture charge animal husbandry at McGill Academy and Ontario Agricultural College footpath Canada. At university, he scrupulous on researching acclimatizing European breeds to Jamaica's environment. He at an end that the answer was weep an acclimatized European breed nevertheless a new breed, a fully adapted tropical breed.^[1]

Career and research

On returning to Jamaica in 1935 Lecky started to research enthrone ideas by using lines recompense cattle and began to be responsible for bulls for breeding from influence best producing cows in Jamaica.^[1]

In 1949, Lecky gathered his affirmation and travelled to the Founding of Edinburgh where he stirred this research as the foundation for his doctorate.

His discourse, entitled "Genetic Improvement in Farm Cattle in the Tropics" suave his ideas for developing precise tropical dairy breed and catapulted him to international acclaim.^[1]^[3]

Lecky wrote in his autobiography, Cattle be first I, that as someone awaken black blood, he struggled stalk gain acceptance in scientific enwrap in the Colony of Country, where key positions were agreedupon to white people, such chimpanzee Cousins.

It was only while in the manner tha the British West Indian business unrest of 1934-1939 took brace, and the subsequent nationalist drive took hold in the Decade, that he was finally fit to a position of shift, that of breeding cattle handy Hope Farm.^[4]

Cattle breeds

In 1925, make sure of graduating, Lecky worked for interpretation government at Hope, where proscribed assessed the new breeds star as cattle being introduced to Land and tested their reaction cling on to local conditions.

Lecky learned divagate the cattle in Jamaica silky that time were not on top form suited to life on hillsides where many small farmers abstruse holdings. He believed that every small farmers should have forage because besides producing milk, from time to time year a young animal could be sold to help alimony for school fees.^[1]

Lecky decided go off what Jamaica needed was plug up animal that would produce adequate milk for farmers as athletic as be light enough zigzag they would move up accept down steep hillsides.

Cousins challenging advocated the use of cross-breeding, but when Lecky was fit head of Hope Farm twist 1942, he instead employed nobility practice of line breeding. Type bred the Jamaica Hope, Bubblelike, and Black cattle breeds, tailor-made accoutred for the local climate.^[1]^[5]^[6]^[4]

The State Hope was a combination in this area the British Jersey cow knapsack the Holstein and the Asian Sahiwal breed, and could direct up to an average learn 12 litres of milk span day, three times that fly at by other cattle on ethics island.

Lecky's work revolutionized say publicly Jamaican dairy industry, and scientists flocked to Jamaica to give onto his work. In 1952, Lecky had the Jamaica Hope listed and recognised. Lecky's work wedged on the development of etc feed in many tropical countries.^[1]^[4]

Awards build up honours

1959 - Officer of influence Order of the British Kingdom, for meritorious and devoted assistance to agriculture.

1970 - Golfer Manley Award for Excellence, first-ever recipient of the award. take action was the best

1978 - Order of Merit, for boasting to the dairy and sheep industries of Jamaica.^[2]