N.W. Manley described the nascent UWI as “our child and father to be” in 1950. His interest in the university was extolled in a tribute after he died in 1969, the same year he had been listed to receive an honorary degree. In 2013, 120 years after his birth and 44 years after his death, the UWI Museum acquired a plaster bust of Manley by master sculptor Alvin Marriott which became the centre of a cameo exhibition at the UWI Museum in July 2013.
