PROFESSOR Oswald Harding’s greatest legacy was not the offices he occupied but the institutions he left stronger, senators declared as they remembered the former Senate president as a scholar, mentor, and parliamentarian whose influence stretched far beyond politics.

The Upper House, during its sitting on Friday, paid tribute to Harding, who died on June 24 at the age of 90, with members from the Government and Opposition benches reflecting on a public life that spanned more than five decades and helped shape Jamaica’s parliamentary democracy, legal profession and higher education.

Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate Donna Scott-Mottley, who first knew Harding as a law lecturer before later serving alongside him in Parliament, said his greatest achievements could not be measured by the many senior positions he held, including attorney general, minister of justice, and Senate president.