The first Asian elected to the House of Commons, representing Central Finsbury for the Liberal Party from 1892 - 1895. This was 4 years after the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, had said that black men should not and would not be elected to Parliament.
He has a statue in Mumbai.
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Dadabhai Naoroji
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Dadabhai Naoroji
Historic Site The first Asian elected to the House of Commons was Dadabhai N...
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Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames
The oldest of the three royal boroughs in England, it was formed in 1965 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames (which itself was a Royal Borough), Malden and Coombe and Su...
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Reform League
A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value. The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them w...
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Frederic Clare Melhado
Frederic Nicholas Clare Melhado was born about 1862 in Maida Hill, London, the younger son of Michael Clare Melhado (1814-1879) and Julia Presbury Melhado née Steele (1825-1910). On 12 March 1862 h...
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John Otho Marsh, Jr.
John Otho Marsh Jr. was born on 7 August 1926 in Winchester, Virginia, USA. He served in the House of Representatives for Virginia 1963-71 and was the Secretary of the Army of the United States of ...
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Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcey of Templehurst
Known as Lord Darcy de Darcy or Darcy of Templehurst or Temple Hirst. Early success as a soldier, and then at court but his involvement in Aske's rebellion, known as the 'Pilgrimage of Grace', led...
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