Anthony Abrahams
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Anthony Claud Walter Abrahams (1923-2011), was a British barrister and educationalist who established CfBT Education Trust, one of the most important educational charities to be established in post-War Britain.
Biography
Tony Abrahams was born in Zanzibar in June 1923 and educated at Bedford School. After serving in North Africa, Italy and Greece during the War, he read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1951.
In 1954, Abrahams established the British Centre, an agency for teachers of English language working abroad, and then, in 1964, working with the Royal Society of Arts, he helped to devise and establish a certificate for teachers of English as a foreign language. In 1968, he established CfBT Education Trust to provide professional structure, practical support and general guidance for teachers of English language working overseas.[1]
One of the top thirty charities by revenue registered in the United Kingdom, CfBT Education Trust has employed more than 10,000 teachers. It set up an distance-learning MA degree in linguistics and, working with the University of Birmingham, created a BPhil degree in teaching English as a foreign language.[2]
Abrahams also helped to create Seaspeak, the international language of the sea. He was chairman of the Harpur Trust.
Abrahams died on 22 April 2011, aged 87.