Promoting International Sporting Links

      Louis Glanville Associates (LGA) was formed in England in 1996 as a not-for-profit vehicle to promote the international yacht race from Cape Town to St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The first edition of the race for The Governor's Cup was held in 1996 and the race has been held at two yearly intervals since, but LGA's association ceased after 2000 when the race management in South Africa was transferred from the Royal Cape Yacht Club to the False Bay Yacht Club. At the same time our association, formed in the early 1990s with the Trinidad Rugby Enthusiasts' annual Caribbean Rugby Sevens Tournament, was revived. LGA resumed its limited role in the promotion, and assistance in the running of the event in Trinidad, until 2005. The event has since been reconfigured and transferred to the sister isle of Tobago which now hosts the Tobago International Sevens Tournament on the second weekend of December. 

In 2002 Louis Glanville Associates undertook the promotion of the book covering the five-hundred year history of the island of St Helena by David L Smallman entitled "Quincentenary: a story of St Helena 1502 - 2002" and published in England by the Patten Press. Offering the reader an account of the relationships between the powers-that-be in London whether situated in the East India Company’s headquarters in Leadenhall Street or Government Offices in Whitehall, and the Island’s administrators in Jamestown, the book is a ‘Governor’s-eye-view’ of the history of a small and distant island colony.

We have recently taken on the remaining stock of “Quincentenary”, ISBN 1 872229 47 6, copies of which we can now supply direct to the public at a much-reduced price. Just complete the Feedback box with your name and address for a price inclusive of p & p to your home, wherever it is.