GEORGETOWN, Guyana– Prominent Guyanese historian and educator Sister
Mary Noel Menezes died at the age of 92, former President David Granger confirmed Wednesday.
Granger said Sr Menezes taught at the University of Guyana from 1967 until her retirement as a Professor of History in 1990 at the age of 60, also recalling as a student “recalls “the rigor of her research, the breadth of her knowledge, the clarity of her instruction and the value of her advice.”
Sister Menezes belonged to the Order of the Sisters of Mercy and was a trained historian who pioneered work in indigenous and Portuguese history.
She received her doctorate in history from the University of London for her ground-breaking dissertation “British policy towards Guyanese Amerindians in the 19th century,” in addition to her academic life, she was also well known for her work at St John Bosco Orphanage, for boys aged three to 16, which she ran from 1968 to 2003.
In 2000, she founded the Mercy Boys’ Home in Georgetown for boys 16 and over to help them transition to adult life.
She received several honorary doctorates from universities worldwide, including the University of the West Indies (UWI), in 2005. The Guyana government awarded her the Golden Arrow of Achievement in 1982, and in 2015 was inducted into the Order of Roraima.
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