Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

89 Education/Literacy CLARENCE C. ABIDH (1884-1952) H e was active in the areas of education from 1901 to 1946; in the Trade Union movement as President General of the All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Trade Union; and as a politician, a Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils (1946-1950). His daughter Stella (1903-1989) was a doctor who served for about 50 years and was a pioneer in Public Health and school services. BISHOP ARTHUR H. ANSTEY (1872-1955) B orn in England he was theAnglican Bishop of Trinidad from 1918 to 1945. Hemade amajor contribution toT&Tby establishing Bishop’s High School for girls in 1921; and in 1925, along with Archdeacon Davies, founded Bishop’s High School, Scarborough, Tobago. He was also involved in the management of the Tacarigua Orphanage and the Diego Martin Reformatory. He also opened a Hostel for student teachers in Port-of-Spain which he managed for some fifteen years. BRIDGET BRERETON (1946- ) U niversity of the West Indies’ history professor Bridget Brereton first moved to the West Indies from England in 1963 at the age of 17, but she has made such a contribution to Trinidad’s literary culture that one would have to be forgiven for mistaking her for a native Trinidadian.