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Village Fathers, Village Mothers, Historians, Developers, Educators cont.
Rev. SAMUEL BYTHELL STUART-MEDAS
Rev. S. B. Stuart-Medas was born at Den-Amstel, West Coast,
Demerara, to Adolphus A. Medas, Schoolmaster, and his wife Maggie
A. E. Stuart. He married Hyacinth E. Cozier and had one son
and a daughter.
He attended Canal No.ll Congregational Primary School, West
Bank, Demerara. The Rev., at a very young age, was principal for
Potosi, Lodge, and Smith’s Church Congregational School.
Rev. S. B. Stuart-Medas, educator, orator, a man ahead of his
time, in 1920, boarded a steam ship, The Avare, in Barbados on course
to America. On Sep 15th, he entered the USA, through Ellis Island.
He was only 38 yrs old. Later that year, on an academic scholarship,
he attended Howard University, USA; where he acquired his Bachelor
of Theology Degree.
For some time, Rev. S. B. Stuart-Medas was pastor of the Bethel
Congregational church, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.
And he was pastor of Rattray, Bethesda and Bethel Congregational
churches. All three he rebuilt. He was the Deputy Chairman of British
Guiana Congregational Union and subsequently the Chairman.
Also, he worked as a Member of Primary Education Committee
1938, the P.C.R. & P.D.C.R. Court of Georgetown, Diamond and
6178. The Rev. was a Correspondent to the Government Body of
Congregational Schools, and Member of the Local Board of Guardians,
West Coast Demerara.
Saturday, August 1st, 1931, at the Tenth Annual Assembly of
Negro Progress Convention, Rev. Stuart-Medas delivered the convention
address – Tribute to Late J. D. Ainsworth of Georgetown.
Later that evening, at a public meeting, he delivered, a second convention
address . . . “the Logical Basis of Life”. He was truly a renaissance
man as he walked among the avant-garde.
