High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he was the second-longest-serving. Described on the web as "a great planter of trees. In England he has been planting trees to commemorate those English poets who loved India - Shelley and Yeats and Eliot - or whom India has loved, Wordsworth and Burns and Blake." All but Yeats and Eliot still to find, though perhaps they are not in London.
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Dr. L. M. Singhvi
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B R Ambedkar - tree
(catalpa Bignoides or Indian Bean Tree) Planted by H.E. Dr. L. M. Singhvi, H...
Friendship tree
We could find no evidence that the Raghuveers were married but it seems very ...
Gandhi and Indo-British togetherness trees
Friendship Tree (Koelreutaria paniculata or Pride of India) planted by Lord M...
Gandhi statue - Bloomsbury
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - s...
India Place named
On 26 January 1950 the Constitution of India came into force and India declar...
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Arthur Onslow
Electred Speaker of the House of Commons in 1728, a post he held for a record-setting 33 years. Born Chelsea. View from the Mirror credits Onslow with the invention of kerbstones.
2 memorials
Lord Gowrie
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was both a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a Co...
1 memorial
Councillor George Hickling
Mayor of St Pancras 1905 - 6. Kentish Towner refers to "a coal merchants George Hickling & Co, then to be found on the corner of Regis Rd." in the late 1800s. Seems likely to be the same man.
1 memorial
Robert Finch
Robert Gerard Finch was born on 20 August 1944 in Ootacamund, India. (Now frequently known as Ooty but officially called Udhagamandalam, it is a town in the Nilgiri Hills). He was the son of Brigad...
2 memorials
Lord Monkswell
Liberal politician. Born as Robert Collier. He entered the House of Lords as the Second Lord Monkswell on his father's death in 1886, and later served in the government of William Ewart Gladstone a...
2 memorials