Prime Minister Maurice Bishop did not assume leadership of the Government of Grenada through the ballot box but by proclamation.
Born in Aruba on May 29, 1944, to Grenadian parents Rupert and Alimenta Bishop, six year old Maurice Bishop migrated to Grenada with his parents in 1950 where he was enrolled at the Wesley Hall Primary School. A year later he was moved to the St. George's Roman Catholic Primary School where he won a scholarship to the Roman Catholic Presentation College.
In his final years of secondary education, Bishop decided he would study law and, when he left Presentation College in 1963, worked for a short time as a civil servant at the Government Registry before going to London. There he attended Gray's Inn and earned his law degree from the University of London.
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