Funeral for Notting Hill Carnival co-founder Sam King MBE

Sam KingThe funeral of a Jamaican “pioneer” who co-founded what later became the Notting Hill Carnival has been held at Southwark Cathedral.

War veteran Sam King MBE settled in south London having arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948 and became Southwark’s first black mayor.

His son, the Reverend Michael King, said his father was a “pioneer” who had been “a servant of the people”.  More