Eric Williams

Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidadian politician. He served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as prime minister from 1962 until his death in 1981. 

He was also a known Caribbean historian, and is widely thought as "The Father of The Nation" to Trinidadians. 

Williams died from throat cancer in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, aged 69.

Category:1911 births
Category:1981 deaths
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Deaths from throat cancer
Category:Prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago
Category:People from Port of Spain