Short answers, pulled from the story.
Eric Eustace Williams was born on the 25th of September in 1911. His father Thomas Henry Williams worked as a minor civil servant with devout Roman Catholic beliefs, while his mother Eliza Frances Boissiere descended from the mixed French Creole Mulatto elite with African and French ancestry.
Eric Williams won an island scholarship in 1932 to attend St. Catherine's Society at Oxford University where he received a first class honours degree ranking first among history graduates in 1935. He completed his D.Phil in 1938 under the supervision of Vincent Harlow with a thesis titled The Economic Aspects of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and West Indian Slavery.
Eric Williams inaugurated his political party the People's National Movement or PNM on the 15th of January 1956 which took Trinidad and Tobago into independence in 1962. He withdrew Trinidad and Tobago from the West Indies Federation following a resolution by the PNM General Council on the 15th of January 1962 after Jamaica left the federation.
The Black Power movement gained strength between 1968 and 1970 within the Guild of Undergraduates at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. Eric Williams proclaimed a State of Emergency on the 21st of April 1970 arresting 15 Black Power leaders while the Coast Guard contained a mutiny led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle that surrendered on the 25th of April.
Prime Minister Eric Eustace Williams died on the 29th of March 1981 at his official house in St. Ann's Port of Spain at age 69. The Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the University of the West Indies was inaugurated in 1998 and named to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 1999 containing some 7,000 volumes plus correspondence speeches manuscripts and historical writings.