George Maxwell Richards

His Excellency George Maxwell Richards TC CM
George Maxwell Richards in 2010
4th President of Trinidad and Tobago
In office 17 March 2003 – 18 March 2013
Prime Minister	Patrick Manning Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Preceded by	A. N. R. Robinson
Succeeded by	Anthony Carmona
Personal details
Born	George Maxwell Richards (1931-12-01)1 December 1931 San Fernando, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
Died	8 January 2018(2018-01-08) (aged 86) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Cause of death	Heart failure
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Jean Ramjohn
Alma mater	University of Manchester Pembroke College, Cambridge
Occupation	Politician engineer

HE George Maxwell Richards TC CM (1 December 1931 – 8 January 2018) was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fourth president of Trinidad and Tobago, in office from 2003 to 2013. He was the first president of Trinidad and Tobago and head of state in the Anglophone Caribbean to have Amerindian ancestry.^[1]

A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad from 1984 to 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd before joining the University of the West Indies in 1965. He was sworn into office as president on 17 March 2003 for a five-year term.