E. R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite was born in 1912 in Georgetown, British Guiana, to parents who had been at Oxford. He studied in New York, then physics at Cambridge, served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and afterwards found no British employer to hire a Black engineer. He was a teacher, then a social worker in London, before becoming Guyana's first representative at the United Nations and its ambassador to Venezuela. He also recounted his stay in South Africa under apartheid and died in the United States in 2016, aged a hundred and four.

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• NovelTo Sir, With LoveE. R. Braithwaite · 1959Literature