Walter Jekyll

Walter Jekyll (27 November 1849, Bramley, Surrey, England – 17 February 1929, Bower Hall, Riverside,Hanover, Jamaica), was an English clergyman who renounced his religion and became a planter in Jamaica, where he collected and published songs and stories from the local African-Caribbean community.[1]

Jekyll lived his youth with his family at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the seventh of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia Hammersley.[2] His sister was the gardener Gertrude Jekyll.[2] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Jamaican Song and Story

Jekyll published Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes, in (1906). with introduction by Alice Werner and appendices by Charles Samuel Myers and Lucy Broadwood.

He also provided the introduction and footnotes to Claude McKay's Songs of Jamaica (1912).[3]

References
  1. "Reverend Walter Jekyll". geni_family_tree. Geni.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  2. "Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll". geni_family_tree. Geni.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. Amardeep Singh, Amardeep Singh. "Songs of Jamaica (1912): Digital Edition". Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1911-1922): A Digital Collection. Lehigh University. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
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