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Ivor Cummings
1913–1992
United Kingdom
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Biography
Ivor Gustavus Cummings (10 December 1913 – 17 October 1992) was a British civil servant of Sierra Leonean ancestry. In 1941, he became the first black official in the British Colonial Office. He has been dubbed the "gay father of the Windrush generation".
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