Louise Horne
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Louise Horne DCSG (12 May 1912 – 28 March 2021) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and nutritionist who introduced the school meals programme.[1][2][3]
In 2012, she still lived in the house in Arima where she had been born a century earlier, which she had inherited from her parents,[4] and in 2019 was living in a care home in the same area.[5][6]
Horne served as an independent Senator in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago from 1976 to 1991.[1]
She was named Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II, one of just two Trinidadian women whom he so honoured.[7]
A postage stamp in her honour was issued in 1980.[8]
In 2003, she published a book, The Evolution of Modern Trinidad and Tobago (Eniath's Printing Company; ISBN 9789768193117).[9]