<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Trinidadian </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Thelma Huggins </Td> </Tr> <P> Sir Solomon Hochoy GCMG GCVO OBE (20 April 1905--15 November 1983) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician . He was the last British governor of Trinidad and Tobago and the first governor - general upon the country's independence in 1962 . He was the first non-white governor of a British crown colony and the first ethnically Chinese and nationally Caribbean person to become governor - general in the Commonwealth . </P> <P> Of Hakka Chinese background, his family emigrated to Trinidad when he was two years old and he grew up in Blanchisseuse . After rising through the civil service, Hochoy was appointed the first non-white Governor in the entire British Empire in 1960 (the first West Indian to be Governor). </P>

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