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Randolph Beresford | |
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| Mayor of London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | |
| In office 1975–1976 | |
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| Born | 1914 Guyana |
| Died | 1995 England |
Randolph Beresford was born in Guyana, a British colony in South America, in 1914, and was a skilled carpenter and contractor before he moved to London in December 1953. His wife joined him nine months later. At that time, Guyanans were British subjects. He quickly found employment as a skilled carpenter in Kensington High Street.
Political Life
[edit]Beresford represented his trade union on the Hammersmith and Fulham Trades Councils and the London Federation of Trades Councils as a member of the Labour Party. He became an active member of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, sitting on the London Federation of Trades Councils in 1962. He entered local politics after the 1958 Notting Hill race riots in 1958. As a councillor for White City Ward, Randolph became Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1975. Randolph was also Chair of several school governing boards, highlighting his interest in education, and former Chair of the local Council for Racial Equality. His contribution to the local community was recognized when he received the British Empire Medal in 1979 and was made an MBE in 1986. After retiring in 1979, Randolph has helped to establish in Ghana two sister clubs to the Mission Dine Club, a luncheon club for Caribbean senior citizens in Willesden.
Beresford contributed to The Motherland Calls: African Caribbean Experiences (1989; reprinted 1992)(Sav Kyriacou, ed.); Oliver Marshall, The Caribbean at War: 'British West Indians' in World War II (1992); Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips, Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998). A photograph of Randolph and his wife taken outside Buckingham Palace, after receiving his MBE in 1986, appears in Susan Okokon's Black Londoners, 1880-1990 (1998).
Beresford authored his autobiography Randolph Beresford, Journey Through Life - From Guyana to Ghana: Biography of Randolph Beresford, MBE, BEM (1995).
