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Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 – December 12, 2016), publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.
To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London.The novel is based on the true story of Braithwaite accepting a teaching post in a secondary school.
Born in Waipukurau in 1924, Brathwaite was educated at Timaru Boys' High School.He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an air gunner in the Pacific in the latter part of World War II.
E. R. Braithwaite: 1912–2016: 104: Guyanese author [28] George Braziller: 1916–2017: 101: American book publisher [29] George E. Bria: 1916–2017: 101: American journalist [30] Sir Harry Brittain: 1873–1974: 100: British journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union [31] Arthur Judson Brown: 1856–1963: 106: American clergyman ...
June 27 – E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese-born novelist, teacher and diplomat (died 2016) June 29 – John Toland, American Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer (died 2004) July 3 – Elizabeth Taylor, English novelist (died 1975) July 6 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian explorer and author (died 2006)
Edward Braithwaite may refer to: Edward Braithwaite (footballer) (1902–1990), English professional footballer; Edward R. Braithwaite (1912–2016), Guyanese novelist
Braithwaite, Brathwaite, or Brathwait is an English surname of Old Norse origin. [1] At the time of the British Census of 1881, [2] the relative frequency of the surname Braithwaite was highest in Westmorland (37.3 times the British average), followed by Cumberland, Yorkshire, Linlithgowshire, Lancashire, County Durham, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Anglesey and Flintshire.
The Guyanese-born writer and educationist E. R. Braithwaite did graduate study at Caius College, gaining a master's in physics in 1949. [31] The Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord studied English at Emmanuel College from 1950 to 1953. [32] The Trinidadian economist Lloyd Best studied at Cambridge in the 1950s. [33]