Rudranath Capildeo

Politician, Deceased Person

1920 – 1970

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Who was Rudranath Capildeo?

Rudranath Capildeo was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and mathematician. He was the Leader of the Democratic Labour Party from 1960 to 1969 and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1961 to 1963, succeeding Ashford Sinanan. He was also a faculty member at the University of London, eventually holding the position of Reader of Mathematics. He was also the younger brother of Simbhoonath Capildeo and uncle of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul and of Shiva Naipaul. He married Ruth Goodchild in 1944 and they had one son named Rudy. He also has a daughter, Anne Gasteen, born in 1959. He was awarded the Trinity Cross in 1969.

Capildeo was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, the youngest child of the prominent Capildeo family. He was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain where he won an island scholarship in 1938. He attended the University of London, where he obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1943, his MSc in Mathematics in 1945, and his PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1948, his thesis being entitled The flexure problem in elasticity.

Capildeo held lectureships at the University of London, including at both University College London and at Westfield College. He also taught briefly at Queen's Royal College and was Principal of the Polytechnic Institute in Port of Spain in 1959.

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Born
Feb 17, 1920
Chaguanas
Siblings
Religion
  • Hinduism
Profession
Education
  • University of London
  • Queen's Royal College
Lived in
  • Trinidad and Tobago
Died
May 12, 1970
England

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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