Leslie "Teacher" Palmer

Leslie Palmer
MBE
Born
Leslie Stephen Palmer

(1943-08-21) 21 August 1943 (age 81)
Tunapuna, Trinidad
Other namesTeacher; The Wounded Soldier
Occupation(s)Community activist, writer, teacher, calypsonian
Known forDirector of Notting Hill Carnival 1973–1975

Leslie Stephen "Teacher" Palmer, MBE[1] (born 21 August 1943),[2][3] is a Trinidadian community activist, writer and teacher, who migrated in the 1960s to the UK, where he became involved in music and the arts in West London. He is credited with developing a successful template for the Notting Hill Carnival, of which he was director from 1973 to 1975,[4] during which time he "completely revolutionised the event and transformed its structure and content almost beyond recognition."[5] He is also known by the name of "The Wounded Soldier" as a kaisonian.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Government of the United Kingdom. 30 December 2016. p. 77. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Colville was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Leslie Palmer blue plaque in London", BluePlaquePlaces.
  4. ^ Ishmahil Blagrove and Margaret Busby, Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival, Rice N Peas, 2014, p. 290.
  5. ^ Abner Cohen, Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements, University of California Press, 1993, p. 70. Quoted in Tony Moore, Policing Notting Hill: Fifty Years of Turbulence, Waterside Press, 2013, pp. 146–147.
  6. ^ "Carnival 2009", London Mission (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago), Volume 43, July – September 2009, p. 19.
  7. ^ "Bacchanal Mas explodes at Notting Hill", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 9 September 2009.
  8. ^ "Trinidad & Tobago Calypsonians". Tntisland.com.