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Lenrie Peters was born on 1 September, 1932 in Bathurst, The Gambia, is a Gambian surgeon and writer (1932–2009). Discover Lenrie Peters's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Surgeon, poet
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 1 September, 1932
Birthday 1 September
Birthplace Bathurst, The Gambia
Date of death 27 May, 2009
Died Place Dakar, Senegal
Nationality Gambia

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1932

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist.

Peters was born on 1 September 1932 in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia.

His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary.

Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin.

Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean Creole origin.

1949

Lenrie Jr. grew up in Bathurst and moved to Sierra Leone in 1949, where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects.

1952

In 1952 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in 1956; from 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and 1959 was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge.

1955

Peters worked for the BBC from 1955 to 1968, on their Africa programmes.

While at Cambridge University he was elected president of the African Students' Union, and interested himself in Pan-Africanist politics.

1965

He also began writing poetry and plays, as well as starting work on his only novel, The Second Round (published by Heinemann in 1965).

Peters worked in hospitals in Guildford and Northampton before returning to the Gambia, where he had a surgical practice in Banjul.

He was a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

1979

Peters was President of the Historic Commission of Monuments of the Gambia, was president of the board of directors of the National Library of the Gambia and The Gambia College from 1979 to 1987, and was a member and President of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) from 1985 to 1991.

2009

He died in Dakar, Senegal, on 27 May 2009, aged 76.

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