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

180 Competition committee, a member of the Zoological Society and the Field Naturalist Club. In 1969 he was awarded the Hummingbird Gold Medal. DANIEL DEFOE (1669-1731) A n English novelist who made Tobago internationally famous in his novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’. JOSEPH DE SUZE (1846-1941) A n educator and a writer, he was a primary school teacher and author of many text books for children about our history, geography and culture, the most well known being Little Folks Trinidad , first published in 1910. FR. ANTHONY DE VERTEUIL (1932- ) F r. Anthony De Verteuil is a teacher, noted historian and writer who published approximately 20 books. Following his graduation from University College, Ireland, where he obtained a B.A. in English and History, Fr. De Verteuil was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland in 1962. After a short period of missionary work in Nigeria, he returned to Trinidad and taught at his alma mater, St. Mary’s College, from 1963 until his retirement in 1992, except for a two year break from 1966 to 1968 when he served as Vice-Principal of Fatima College. He was