was married three times. By his first wife Gertrude Nellie, Symonette had one son, Basil Harcourt. By his second wife, the former Thelma Bell Clepper of Andalusia, Alabama, Symonette had one son, Robert "Bobby", and one daughter, Zelda. In the late 1940s, Symonette married Canadian Margaret Frances, the union producing one daughter, Margaret Ann, who died of encephalitis when she was a toddler, and two sons, Roland Craig and Theodore Brent. Symonette's eldest son founded the Bitter End Resort in the BVI's. His second son Bobby served as Speaker of the House of Assembly. His youngest son Brent Symonette was the Deputy Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Free National Movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ingraham led government and in 2017 was appointed Minister of Financial Services, Trade & Industry and Immigration. His eldest daughter Zelda was honored by the B'nai B'rith for improving relations between the races. Symonette died on 13 March 1980 at his home in Nassau; his widow, Lady Margaret Symonette died 22 years later on 2 June 2002. Legacy Symonette's portrait appears on the Bahamian $50 note. A community park in the settlement of Current, Eleuthera, Bahamas, just feet from his birthplace, was named after him on what would have been his 111th birthday, 16 December 2009. In 2018, he was posthumously awarded the Bahamian Order of National Hero (NH). See also "A Little Bit of Independent", Time Magazine, 24 January 1964. "Consultant's Paradise Lost", Time Magazine, 8 September 1967. "Bad News for the Bay Street Boys", Time Magazine, 20 January 1967. References 1898 births 1980 deaths Prime Ministers of the Bahamas Foreign ministers of the Bahamas United Bahamian Party politicians Members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas People from Eleuthera Knights Bachelor 20th-century Bahamian politicians