Lenrie Peters

Lenrie Peters (1932 to 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist, born in Bathurst, now Banjul. He grew up there and in Sierra Leone, read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked and studied at University College Hospital in London, receiving his medical and surgical qualifications from Cambridge in 1959. After hospital posts in Guildford and Northampton he returned to The Gambia and ran a surgical practice in Banjul. He was a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and of the Royal College of Surgeons in England. Alongside medicine he wrote the novel The Second Round and several books of poetry, and held public roles including president of the Gambia College board and of the West African Examination Council.