Sir Edward Trenton Richards was born in Berbice, Guyana in 1908. He was trained as a teacher at the age of 21
        and moved to Bermuda to join his sister Pearl. At The Berkeley Institute he taught Mathematics, Latin and Games
        and he was an associate editor at The Bermuda Recorder, where he often spoke up about the system of segregation
        in the country at the time. ET, as he was affectionately known, became a citizen in 1937 and married Madree
        Williams in 1940, raising two girls and a boy. In 1943 he traveled to Britain despite World War II and was
        determined to get his law degree. He was called to the UK bar in 1946 and to the Bermuda Bar in 1947, becoming
        the fourth black lawyer to practice in Bermuda. The following year he was elected to Parliament, where he served
        Warwick parish for the next two decades. In 1970 he was knighted by the Queen, becoming the first black
        Bermudian to achieve knighthood. The following year he became the first black Government leader, and with the
        Constitutional Amendment Act of 1973, became the first Premier of Bermuda. ET retired from politics at the end
        of 1975 and retired from practicing law in 1986, at the age of 78. He died in 1991 at the age of 83 and was made
        a Bermuda National Hero in 2015.