Introduction
Walter Jekyll (27 November, 1849, Bramley, Surrey, England – 17 February, 1929, Bower Hall, Riverside,Hanover, Jamaica), was an English clergyman who renounced his religion and became a planter in Jamaica, where he collected and published songs and stories from the local African-Caribbean community.
Jekyll lived his youth with his family at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the seventh of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia Hammersley. His sister was the gardener Gertrude Jekyll. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Jamaican Song and Story
Jekyll published Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes, in (1906). with introduction by Alice Werner and appendices by Charles Samuel Myers and Lucy Broadwood.
He also provided the introduction and footnotes to Claude McKay's Songs of Jamaica (1912).