Cyril Duprey
Cyril Lucius Duprey OBE was a Trinidad and Tobago businessman. He founded the Colonial Life Insurance Company in 1936, the first locally owned insurance company. The company was expanded into the CL Financial Group, which is run by his nephew, Lawrence Duprey. In 1956, Duprey was awarded the Order of the British Empire and in 1977 he received Trinidad & Tobago's Chaconia Medal. His nephew is now the chairman of CL Financial.
According to some sources, Dupey was known for his personal business mission statement "Give a man value, give a man service and he will support you."
In the 1960s, Cyril Dupey became president of the Cooperative Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, president of the Building and Loan Association of Trinidad and Tobago, and a board member of E.B. Gibb, a trading company.
In 1988, Dupey was awarded the Trinity Cross, the highest national award of Trinidad and Tobago, for his contributions to local business and community development.
His biography, Duprey: The success story of Cyril L. Duprey and the Colonial Life Insurance Company by Owen Baptiste, is now out of print.
