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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Henry Clarke
Businessman and politician. He was a coal importer and commission merchant in Gracechurch Street. When the first London County Council elections were held in 1889, he became one of four councillors...
2 memorials
General Wladyslaw Sikorski
Prime Minister of the war-time London-based Polish Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. In his 1970 play, Soldiers, Rolf Hochhuth accuses Churchill of murdering Sikorski. ...
2 memorials
John Mixer
Co-churchwarden at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1882.
0 memorials
1 memorial
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Robert Ferrier
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Hazel Reeves
Our picture comes from the video of the unveiling of the Gresley statue, on Reeves' website.
1 memorial
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
J. H. Starr
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
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