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Jamaican academic and choreographer (1933–2010)

Ralston Milton "Rex" NettlefordOMFIJOCC (3 February 1933 – 2 February 2010)^[1][2][3] was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-ChancellorEmeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Biography

Rex Nettleford was born on February 3, 1933 in Falmouth, Jamaica, Nettleford attended Unity Primary School in Bunkers Hill, Trelawny, and graduated from Cornwall College in Montego Bay, before going to the University of the West Indies (UWI) to obtain an honours degree in history.^[4][5] As a child, he sang and recited in school concerts, sang in the church choir, danced, and began working as a choreographer at the age of 11 with the Worm Chambers Variety Troupe, which helped to fund his studies.^[4] At Cornwall College, he acted in productions of the college's drama clu