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Lynden Pindling
Founding father of Bahamian independence & longest-serving prime minister
The lawyer who threw the Speaker's mace out of the window to challenge colonial rule — then led his country to sovereignty and governed it for a quarter-century.
The rise
Educated in London, Pindling returned to Nassau to practise law and entered politics through the Progressive Liberal Party, becoming its leader in 1956. In 1967, he dramatically tossed the Speaker's mace from the House of Assembly window to protest the colonial government, galvanising the independence movement that culminated in Bahamian sovereignty on 10 July 1973.