82 Queen Edith’s Way

History of 82 Queen Edith's Way

1965

Robert Loinsworth

b. 1902 d. 1990

Robert was a Trinidadian educationalist who was also a founding member of the Cambridge West Indian Cricket Club. He wrote in ‘A Quiet Pilgrimage’, 1988: My own mecca is a world in which men and women of all races, colours and creeds are making an effort to live together in harmony. He moved to England in 1956 leaving his position as Assistant Director of Education in Trinidad and Tobago. He joined the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and then gained an MA from Pembroke College in 1960. He was an active member of the Cambridge Community Relations Council from 1966 to 1978; he was invited to Buckingham Palace in 1976.

He captained the First Eleven at Queen’s Royal Collage Trinidad between 1919 and 920. He later studied Latin, French and History at Bristol University.

In 1939 he is recorded as a college professor in Bristol, living with his son, Carl, age 2. In 1958 he was living at 21 Chaucer Road, Flat 2.