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Lawyer who pursued principles of racial equality both for those he represented as a barrister and within the legal establishment

OVER the course of three days in the summer of 1882 the eyes of the English and Welsh cricketing world were set on a small corner of Montgomeryshire. The visit of the English United XI brought some of the stars of the Victorian age to Lymore to take on a team of Montgomery cricketers, bolstered by the addition of several players drafted in from rival clubs for the occasion. The event was celebrated at the time, with the local newspaper writing ‘It is some time since, if ever, such deeds of valour have been enrolled upon the annals of the cricket field in the county of Montgomery as wa...

BILLY STRACHAN was born 100 years ago today, on April 16 1921 in Jamaica, then a British colony.  Aged just 18, he paid his own way to Britain in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force to take part in the war effort against Nazi Germany.  He rose through the ranks to become flight lieutenant, a remarkable achievement for a black person at that time.  Billy Strachan and his wife Joyce He married Joyce Smith and by 1946, the young couple and their three sons migrated to Jamaica to start a new life.  The colonial racism he encountered prevented Strachan gaining promotion in his old job in the Civ...