ERIC   EUSTACE   WILLIAMS DATE OF BIRTH: September 25, 1911 PLACE OF BIRTH: ...., Trinidad EDUCATION: Queen's Royal College Oxford University (Ph. D., 1938) CAREER:                                 Dr. Eric Eustace Williams was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. He won an island scholarship in 1932 which gave him the opportunity to attend Oxford University. In 1939, Williams accepted a position at Howard University, becoming a full professor by 1947. In 1944, he was appointed to the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. In 1948, Williams returned to Trinidad as the Commission's Deputy Chairman of the Caribbean Research Council. Williams' publications included: The Negro in the Caribbean (1942) Capitalism and Slavery (1944) History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago (1964) British Historians and the West Indies (1964) Inward Hunger (1969) From Columbus to Castro: History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 (1970) AWARD: 2002 - Trinidad & Tobago Trinity Cross (Posthumously, for Distinguished Service) DIED: March 29, 1981 Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit