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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. The novel, in 22 chapters, gives insight into the politics of race and class in postwar London.
To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in a secondary school in the East End of London. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts , Judy Geeson , Suzy Kendall , Patricia Routledge and singer Lulu making her film debut. [ 4 ]
A River Ran Out of Eden – James Vance Marshall; Escape from Red China – Robert Loh with Humphrey Evans; The Surgeon – W. C. Heinz; Smith and Jones – Nicholas Monsarrat; To Sir, With Love – E. R. Braithwaite...and presumed dead – Lucille Fletcher; Volume 54 – Summer. The Artist – Jan de Hartog; The Shoes of the Fisherman ...
Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He started studying botanical science when he was eighteen. [2] In 1781 he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh, [2] where he studied chemistry under Joseph Black, natural history under John Walker, [citation needed] and botany under John Hope, an early teacher of Linnaean taxonomy. [2]
E. R. Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love: Louis E. Lomax: The Reluctant African: 1962 Dwight L. Dumond: Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America: John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me: 1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky: Mankind Evolving: 1964 Harold R. Isaacs: The New World of Negro Americans: Bernard E. Olson: Faith and Prejudice: Nathan Glazer and ...
Epitaph for James Smith" is a satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in his first publication, the Kilmarnock volume: LAMENT him, Mauchline husbands a’, He aften did assist ye; For had ye staid hale weeks awa, Your wives they ne’er had miss’d ye. Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye press,
James Smith of Jordanhill FRSE FRS MWS (1782–1867) was a Scottish merchant, antiquarian, architect, geologist, biblical critic and man of letters. An authority on ancient shipbuilding and navigation, his works included "Newer Pliocene" (1862) and "Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul" (1848).