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This is my mother's elder sister June Williams. (See picture of four Williams sisters and their mother). She was the first person in my family ever to go to university.
She got a fairly high powered job as what was called an almoner, a social worker who works in hospitals. Somehow she got to work for Hans Eysenck, who at the time was a very senior official in the NHS mental health services. She always had periods of depression and later in life was said to be a manic depressive. Eysenck, who is mainly famous for some now discredited theories about race and IQ, is alleged to have pulled strings to get her drugs which eventually killed her. Fairly late in life she met a guy called John Agbazi, a Nigerian who was studying law in London. They got married and went to Nigeria, after living in London for a fair time. This marriage precipitated a huge family split. I don't know why. The Williams family claimed they were not racists and I believe them. Something happened in Nigeria. I have heard stuff, but I don't want to repeat it. John was apparently extremely well connected in Nigeria and was expected to have a high flying legal/ political career, which seems not to have happened. June returned to England and was subsequently admitted to a mental hospital in south London, the Maudsley. When she died the story that circulated in the family was that the cause was the drugs she had been taking, anti depressives. |
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