Henry Sylvester [From Old C Bedaine

Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer, activist, writer, and councillor who founded the Pan-African movement and organized the First Pan-African Conference in London in 1900. Born in Trinidad (possibly Arouca) to parents from Barbados, he studied law in the US, Canada, and Britain, becoming the first black barrister called to the bar in the Cape Colony and a pioneering black councillor in London. He advocated for the rights of people of African descent across the British Empire until his death in 1911.[1][2][3]