Richard O'Ferrall

Richard Anton Patrick Connel O'Ferrall was born on 21 July 1855 in Paramaribo. A qualified schoolteacher in Dutch, French and English, he wrote a reading method around 1881, ran a higher primary school and the evening school for artisans opened in 1888. With his pupils he formed a troupe; a play of his, performed in 1896, was the first by an author from the country to fill an entire evening. In 1903 he founded a boys' association, edited an agricultural weekly and sat in the States from 1922 to 1928. He died in Paramaribo on 28 October 1936.

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• NovelEen beschavingswerkRichard O'Ferrall · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature