I've read that the poet and painter, Adrian Henri (1932-2000) was
eldest child of Arthur Maurice Henri (1898–1970), a dancing instructor
and war department clerk, and Emma Johnson (d. 1970). His paternal
grandfather, Louis Ernest Henri Celine (b. 1856), was a Mauritian
sailor who arrived in Liverpool in 1888 and established a seaman's
mission in Birkenhead. I've not been able to find anything on the
internet to clarify whether or not Louis Ernest Henri Celine was white,
black or of mixed ethnic origins.
Can anyone help?
Many thanks
Angela Allison
Coventry, UK
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