EULAC_6590 Georgetown, Guyana "" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. eulac3d Site TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "" "E.R. Braithwaite, (Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite), Guyanese author and diplomat (born June 27, 1912, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) \u2014 died December 12, 2016, Rockville, Md.), was the author of the best-selling memoir To Sir, with Love (1959), an account of his experience as a well-educated black man teaching a group of undisciplined high-school students in the slums of London\u2019s East End. The book was translated into more than 20 languages and was made into an immensely popular 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier. \r\nBraithwaite was educated at Queens College in British Guiana and studied (1940) at the City College of New York before joining the Royal Air Force in Britain as a pilot. After World War II he earned (1949) a master\u2019s degree in physics from the University of Cambridge. However, because of his race, he was unable to work in his field, but he did find employment teaching (1950\u201357) at a secondary school in London and later (1958\u201360) as a social worker finding foster homes for nonwhite children. He subsequently wrote Paid Servant (1962). \r\nBraithwaite worked as a human rights officer for the World Veterans Federation and later as an education consultant for UNESCO, and in 1966 he was appointed Guyana\u2019s representative to the United Nations. He also served (1968\u201370) as Guyana\u2019s ambassador to Venezuela. From 1970 he taught at various American universities. He wrote other books, notably the memoir Honorary White (1975), about a visit to South Africa.\r\n" Person "Aubrey Williams\u00a0(8 May 1926 \u2013 17 April 1990) was a Guyanese artist. He was best known for his large, oil-on-canvas paintings, which combine elements of abstract expressionism with forms, images and symbols inspired by the pre-Columbian art of indigenous peoples of the Americas.\r\nBorn in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana), Williams began drawing and painting at an early age. He received informal art tutoring from the age of three, and joined the Working Peoples' Art Class at the age of 12. \r\nAfter training as an agronomist he worked as an Agricultural Field Officer for eight years, initially on the sugar plantations of the East Coast and later in the North-West region of the country \u2014 an area inhabited primarily by the indigenous Warao people. His time among the Warao had a dramatic impact on his artistic approach, and initiated the complex obsession with pre-Columbian arts and cultures that ran throughout his artistic career.\r\nWilliams left Guyana at the height of the Independence Movement in 1952, and moved to the United Kingdom. Following his first exhibition in London in 1954, he became an increasingly significant figure in the post-war British avant-garde art scene, particularly through his association with Denis Bowen's New Vision Centre Gallery. \r\nIn 1966, he came together with a group of London-based Caribbean artists and intellectuals to found the Caribbean Artists Movement, which served as a dynamic hub of cultural events and activity until its dissolution in 1972." Person 6.8146256522600135 -58.15647125244141