In March 1969 Baron Constantine, lawyer & cricket star, became the 1st black member of this house of Parliament
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Baron Constantine | West Indies Cricket | Cricket Players and ...  Baron Constantine's Cricinfo profile. ... Player index by letter. West Indies .... Learie Constantine is introduced at Lords as Britain's first black peer, London, 1969.
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Black History Month - Great Black Britain. on Behance  Died: March 31 1797 ... Though not the first black player outright - the amateur, and Scotland ... is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for ... when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons. ... For more info on Baron Constantine, follow the link below.
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Sir Learie Constantine  West Indian Cricket Legend and first Black ...  Sep 21, 2015 ... March 15, 2016 .... Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt. (21 September 1901 ... He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969. ... and was a member of the West Indies teams that toured England in 1923 and 1928. ... became the first black man to be appointed to the House of Lords.
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Learie Constantine - Wikipedia  Source: CricketArchive, 23 March 2009. Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, (21 September 1901  1 July 1971) was a West Indian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. ... He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969.
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