 Beryl Gilroy

Beryl Agatha Gilroy ("née" Answick; 30 August 1924 – 4 April 2001) was a Guyanese teacher, novelist, an ethno-psychotherapist, and poet who has been described as "one of Britain's most significant post-war Caribbean migrants", part of the so-called "Windrush generation".Born in what was then British Guiana, she moved in the 1950s to the United Kingdom, where she became the first black headteacher in London.