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Fernando Henriques
Louis "Fernando" Henriques (15 June 1916 – 25 May 1976) was a Jamaican educator and scholar. As a social anthropologist, he made significant contributions to British and Caribbean social sciences scholarship on colour, class, sexuality, and race relations. From a prominent Jamaican family, his mixed cultural heritage and experiences in both British and Caribbean cultures informed his research and academic practice. One of the first Black British professors in UK academic history, Fernando Henriques developed his scholarly expertise though positions at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, Sussex and the West Indies, bridging the latter two institutions through his role as Director of The Centre for Multi-Racial Studies between 1964 and 1974.
Fernando Henriques was born on 15 June 1916 in Kingston, Jamaica, to Cyril Charles Henriques, a wealthy merchant, and Edith Emily Delfosse. His father was of Portuguese and Jewish descent, while his mother was born in Haiti. One of six children, he moved with his whole family to England from Jamaica in 1919 at the age of three, as his father wanted to give his children an English education. Fernando was the youngest of six siblings, including Pauline Crabbe OBE (1914–1998), an actor, broadcaster and magistrate; and their elder brother Sir Cyril George Henriques (1908–1982), a Lord Chief Justice of Jamaica knighted in 1963. The Henriques siblings are mentioned in an exhibition about Jamaican families and their roles in the UK during the Second World War in Southwark.
Fernando married Rosamund (née Seymour), an artist who went on to illustrate his books, and together they had three sons, Julian, Adrian, and Tarquin.
Fernando also had a daughter, Judith Levin.[citation needed]
Fernando Henriques attended St Aloysius' College, Highgate, in North London. In 1939, he was awarded a London County Council scholarship to the London School of Economics to read Law, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Between 1939–1942 Fernando served in the Auxiliary Fire Service in London. Fernando decided to change his academic pathway from Law to History and 1942 he won a scholarship to attend Brasenose College Oxford as a Senior History Scholar, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union in Trinity term 1944. He went on to complete a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology at Oxford (1948), including fieldwork in the Caribbean as a Carnegie Research Fellow, supervised by Meyer Fortes and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. During his doctoral studies, Henriques taught as a part-time lecturer in the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, and as a Graduate Assistant in the Institute of Social Anthropology.
In 1948, Henriques' first position was as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Leeds, where he went on to become Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, “possibly the first Black academic to hold such a role anywhere in the UK”. It was there that he co-wrote the classic ethnographic study Coal is Our Life: An Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community (1956), with Norman Dennis and Clifford Slaughter, which examined the everyday life of a close-knit community, exploring the relationships between the working, family and leisure environments. Henriques was targeted by the Yorkshire press amidst local outrage at some of the study's findings, which analysed the practices and moral dimensions of extra-marital sexual activity within mining communities. In 1964, Henriques joined the University of Sussex as Professor of Social Anthropology.
Henriques was appointed as Professorial Fellow in Sociology, School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, in Autumn 1964. His main task in this role was to set up and direct the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, a unit based in the School of Social Studies, with its main site developed in Barbados via a partnership with the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. The project was strongly supported by Asa Briggs, a friend of Henriques who had been connected by him to Gilberto Freyre. Funded principally through a grant from Bata Corporation, with support from the UK Foreign Office, the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies had three main tasks:
The Centre operated under Henriques' directorship until 1974, when its funding model became unsustainable.
Fernando Henriques
Louis "Fernando" Henriques (15 June 1916 – 25 May 1976) was a Jamaican educator and scholar. As a social anthropologist, he made significant contributions to British and Caribbean social sciences scholarship on colour, class, sexuality, and race relations. From a prominent Jamaican family, his mixed cultural heritage and experiences in both British and Caribbean cultures informed his research and academic practice. One of the first Black British professors in UK academic history, Fernando Henriques developed his scholarly expertise though positions at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, Sussex and the West Indies, bridging the latter two institutions through his role as Director of The Centre for Multi-Racial Studies between 1964 and 1974.
Fernando Henriques was born on 15 June 1916 in Kingston, Jamaica, to Cyril Charles Henriques, a wealthy merchant, and Edith Emily Delfosse. His father was of Portuguese and Jewish descent, while his mother was born in Haiti. One of six children, he moved with his whole family to England from Jamaica in 1919 at the age of three, as his father wanted to give his children an English education. Fernando was the youngest of six siblings, including Pauline Crabbe OBE (1914–1998), an actor, broadcaster and magistrate; and their elder brother Sir Cyril George Henriques (1908–1982), a Lord Chief Justice of Jamaica knighted in 1963. The Henriques siblings are mentioned in an exhibition about Jamaican families and their roles in the UK during the Second World War in Southwark.
Fernando married Rosamund (née Seymour), an artist who went on to illustrate his books, and together they had three sons, Julian, Adrian, and Tarquin.
Fernando also had a daughter, Judith Levin.[citation needed]
Fernando Henriques attended St Aloysius' College, Highgate, in North London. In 1939, he was awarded a London County Council scholarship to the London School of Economics to read Law, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Between 1939–1942 Fernando served in the Auxiliary Fire Service in London. Fernando decided to change his academic pathway from Law to History and 1942 he won a scholarship to attend Brasenose College Oxford as a Senior History Scholar, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union in Trinity term 1944. He went on to complete a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology at Oxford (1948), including fieldwork in the Caribbean as a Carnegie Research Fellow, supervised by Meyer Fortes and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. During his doctoral studies, Henriques taught as a part-time lecturer in the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, and as a Graduate Assistant in the Institute of Social Anthropology.
In 1948, Henriques' first position was as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Leeds, where he went on to become Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, “possibly the first Black academic to hold such a role anywhere in the UK”. It was there that he co-wrote the classic ethnographic study Coal is Our Life: An Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community (1956), with Norman Dennis and Clifford Slaughter, which examined the everyday life of a close-knit community, exploring the relationships between the working, family and leisure environments. Henriques was targeted by the Yorkshire press amidst local outrage at some of the study's findings, which analysed the practices and moral dimensions of extra-marital sexual activity within mining communities. In 1964, Henriques joined the University of Sussex as Professor of Social Anthropology.
Henriques was appointed as Professorial Fellow in Sociology, School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, in Autumn 1964. His main task in this role was to set up and direct the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, a unit based in the School of Social Studies, with its main site developed in Barbados via a partnership with the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. The project was strongly supported by Asa Briggs, a friend of Henriques who had been connected by him to Gilberto Freyre. Funded principally through a grant from Bata Corporation, with support from the UK Foreign Office, the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies had three main tasks:
The Centre operated under Henriques' directorship until 1974, when its funding model became unsustainable.