The founder of Jerripedia, Mike Bisson [1] was born in Nicaragua on 19 March 1949, the son of Roy Le Cras Bisson and Marguerite Constance Rimington. Descended from the Le Gros Bisson branch of St Ouen and St Mary, Mike can trace his father's lineage back to the 15th century.
He returned from Nicaragua with his parents, aged six months, and the family settled again in Jersey, where both his parents had been born. He was educated at First Tower School and Victoria College. At the age of 20 he joined the Jersey Evening Post, working as a news reporter and then sub-editor, before spending nine years as news editor from 1978 to 1987. He then left to found Michael Stephen Publishers, a successful periodical publishing division of the newspaper's parent company, the Guiton Group.
In 1989 he returned to the newspaper as editor-designate, taking over as editor the following January. He held the position concurrently with general manager from 1991, until his appointment as managing director. He left the newspaper in 1996 to work as a freelance journalist and website developer and was responsible for the founding of the Jersey Legal Information Board.
He was married in 1970 to Collette Andalusia Picot Le Breton, daughter of Francis Nicolle Le Breton and Catherine Picot, and they had three children. He married secondly Sylvia Ann Collins (neé Maiden) in 2002.
He founded Jerripedia in February 2010 and has been its editor ever since. He took on the additional responsibility of webmaster in 2020.
The first photograph of Mike
Mike with his mother in Nicaragua in 1949
Mike and his mother at his baptism in 1950
Mike with his grandmother Constance Rimington, nee Smith, in 1951
Mike in a fruit box with his father in 1951
Polyphotos were a popular commercial application in the 1950s
With younger brother John and their father
Mike and John
Notes and references
- ↑ This biography is included, not because Mike thinks he is remotely 'important', but because those of us who have been proud to assist him with the creation of this website which has been his passion since 2010, believe that it is important that those who are interested cant learn a little about the man behind Jerripedia
