Sir Hugh Olliviere Beresford Wooding TC CBE PC QC (14 January 1904 – 26 July 1974) was a lawyer and politician from Trinidad and Tobago.
[2] In 1914, he was awarded an exhibition to attend Queen's Royal College, and won the island scholarship to study law at the Middle Temple in London, being admitted to the Bar in 1927.
[6] In 1971, he worked in a commission for the reform of the constitution of Trinidad and Tobago and was installed as Chancellor of the University of the West Indies on 13 November 1971,[7] serving in that position until his death.
On 14 January 1928, Wooding married Anne Marie Coussey, a British-educated African from a well-to-do Gold Coast family.
[8] She had previously been romantically involved with American poet Langston Hughes in Paris, and they had continued a long correspondence until she married Wooding.