Beryl Gilroy

Beryl Gilroy, née Answick, was born on 30 August 1924 at Springlands, in British Guiana, and was raised by her grandparents, a grandfather who taught her to read and a grandmother, an herbalist, who told her the stories of the country. A graduate of the Georgetown teacher training college in 1945, she left for London, looked for a post there for a long time, was hired in 1953, and in 1969 became the capital's first Black headteacher. A psychotherapist, novelist and author for young readers, she died in 2001.

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• NarrativeBlack TeacherBeryl Gilroy · 1976Literature