Thomas Webb Roberts on The Problems of Public Life in India and Ceylon, a pamphlet written after he retired from the Ceylon Civil Service and pubd by The Times of Ceylon in 1937.
TW Roberts was a talented Barbadian who fared well at the elite Harrison College and then entered Oxford University and thereafter gained eentry into the British Colonial Service. Sent to Ceylon (with his English wife), his official duties were largely in the judicial field — in line with the colour-conscious Colonial Service’s policy of reserving the GA and AGA posts for white officers and the shunting of the browns (whether of Indian, Sri Lankan or West Indian lineage) into the world of judicial administration.
After his wife died from illness in the early 1920s, TW married Miriam Perera of Matara stock and they had four more children. His last station was as District Judge in Galle. He loved the place and settled down there.
