Bridget Brereton (born 1946) is a Trinidad and Tobago-based historian, who is Emerita Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, St.
[3] Bridget Mary Brereton was born in Madras, India, to Patrick and Hedda (née Friedlander) Cruttwell.
[4] Her father had been serving in the Indian Army during World War II, though as the war was over by the time she was born, her family returned to Britain when she was a baby and Brereton grew up in Scotland and England: she went to primary school in Edinburgh until the age of nine, after which she attended the Maynard School for Girls in Exeter, where she took her O-level and A-Level examinations.
[3] She obtained an MA degree at the University of Toronto, and went on to become the first person to gain a PhD in a humanities or social sciences subject at UWI's St Augustine campus in Trinidad.
[3] A work she has cited as having been particularly influential in her development as a scholar is Trinidad in Transition: The Years after Slavery by British historian Donald Wood.