Esme Grant

Esme Melbro Grant was a Jamaican politician. She was one of the first women elected to the Parliament of Jamaica.

Political career

She was JLP candidate for Westmoreland Central in the 1962 Jamaican general election. She impressed the party leader that she was made the first female parliamentary secretary of independent Jamaica — working at the education ministry. In the 1967 general election she was elected in Westmoreland North Eastern but lost to Jim Thompson in the 1972 general election.
She was acting Minister of Labour and National Insurance in the 1970s. She resigned from the Senate of Jamaica in 1976.