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.