Historic Site
The first Asian elected to the House of Commons was Dadabhai Naoroji. He represented Central Finsbury for the Liberal Party from 1892 - 1895.
EC1, Rosebery Avenue, Finsbury Town Hall
Silver Tiger has a good post on Naoroji.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dadabhai Naoroji - Finsbury Town Hall
The first Asian elected to the House of Commons, representing Central Finsbur...
2012: This building no longer exists (demolished apparently in 2007) and last time we looked had been replaced with a building site. We h...
At the time the address was 9 Queens Wood Avenue.
Soper spoke here every Wednesday afternoon from 1927 until 1998, three weeks before his death. There is some film of him here in the 1975...
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Valerie, and died here 8 years later.
Painter based in Liverpool. Born London or Liverpool (sources differ). Son of Henry, also an artist, and brother to Mark, a theatre scenery painter, whose dog Nipper, he (possibly with another brot...
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