George Eustace Theodore ("Theo") Brancker (1937-2002) came to Liverpool University from Barbados to study law in the late 1950s and was elected president of the Guild of Undergraduates in 1960, the first black person to achieve such an honour at any British university.
Nine year later, Brancker returned to Barbados with his wife and two children, becoming Clerk of the House for the Government.
John Richard Archer (1863-1932) was the son of a Barbadian sea steward and an Irish mother, brought up in Blake Street at the back of Lime Street station.
He had hoped to be a doctor, but became a photographer, travelling extensively. He settled with his wife in Battersea, London, in the 1890s. An early Socialist and vigorous campaigner, he became Battersea's Mayor in 1913.
Robin Moodley (1959-) was born in Liverpool, the son of a South African ship's cook. His family had anglicised their surname from Moodali. He joined the police and was a sergeant at Admiral Street station when the Toxteth riots broke out in 1981.
It was a frightening experience in which a few police, some with shields, had to face hundreds of people hurling lumps of concrete. He suffered injuries to both legs and although he continued in the police, Sgt Moodley retired in 1995 on an injury pension.
June Burnett (1936-) was born June Harry and attended Windsor Street Primary School, Toxteth. Her artistic potential was obvious, but she worked in factories, fairgrounds and even as a motorcycle stunt rider, before becoming a model at the Liverpool College of Art.
Her coffee-break portraits convinced the authorities that she should be on the other side of the easel. She was a student there between 1957 and 1960.
She is now a respected and widely-exhibited painter as well as a writer, whose novels include Limb Girl, Blond and Briggs, Helene Bebe and When The Singing Stops.
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