Lindsay

Alan Lindsay, general manager and subsequently managing director of Carreras of Jamaica Ltd from 1964 to 1977, passed away on Friday, September 19, at Hatch End, Middlesex, England, where he retired in 1981.

Lindsay was born in Newcastle, England, in 1921. He started his business career with a dispatch company in that city as a lad. In 1939, at the age of 18, he joined the British Army in which he served for seven years before being demobilised as a sergeant in an armoured transport division. After the war, he joined the Rothman's Group of Companies in the United Kingdom.

Transferred in 1964

During 1957, Alan was assigned to the production side of that company's operations in Malta, and in 1964 he was transferred to Jamaica.

Lindsay was a keen sportsman, and played soccer, cricket and tennis before taking up golf. He had a host of friends in the expatriate and local communities in Jamaica, and was also a committee member of the Young Men's Christian Association.

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Joyce, and son Michael.