A letter in Stabroek News by Keith Bernard entitled “The British – and Dutch-descended populations’ historiography seems to have been drowned out by larger ethnic narratives” caught my attention yesterday morning. One of the most prominent professional institutions that have emerged from Guyana’s colonial history is the law firm of Cameron & Shepherd which was established by two British solicitors William Stuart Cameron and Charles Edward Shepherd and whose Senior Partner up to 2006 was Joseph Arthur King, popularly known as “Joey King,” whose great grandparents were British.
The monumental contribution to the legal profession of Cameron & Shepherd, which was established on 4 April, 1901, and celebrates its 125th anniversary next year, has been hidden behind a wall of silence dictated by the rules against advertisement by lawyers. Although the rules remain, times have changed, and the history of Cameron & Shepherd has been published online and in a privately published book.
