A. R. F. Webber

A. R. F. Webber
Born(1880-01-01)1 January 1880
Scarborough, Tobago
Died29 June 1932(1932-06-29) (aged 52)
British Guiana
SpouseBeatrice Elizabeth Glassford
Children2
Parents
  • James Frances Webber (father)
  • Sarah Webber née Hope (mother)
RelativesWilson Harris (wife's nephew)

Albert Raymond Forbes Webber FRGS (1 January 1880 – 29 June 1932) was a Tobago-born Guyanese politician, author and newspaper editor.[1]

He was author of Those That Be in Bondage: A Tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters (1917), a novel described as "a strange mixture of romantic sentimentality and protest against the treatment of East Indian indentured labourers on Guyanese plantations",[2] and Centenary History and Handbook of British Guiana (1931).

  1. ^ Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (2009). Caribbean visionary : A.R.F. Webber and the making of the Guyanese nation. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-332-7. OCLC 506068275.
  2. ^ Anthony Boxhill, "The Beginnings to 1929", in Bruce King (ed.), West Indian Literature, Macmillan, 1979, p. 42.