Person    | Male  Born 4/9/1825  Died 30/6/1917

Dadabhai Naoroji

Categories: Politics & Administration, Race Issues

Countries: India

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.

In 1855 Naoroji travelled to England for the first time to set up a branch of the mercantile house of Cama, the first Indian firm to have a base in the country. He was then appointed to a professorship of Gujarati at University College, London (1856–65). Naoroji spent seven spells in England, five of them in London, and over three decades in the capital all told, living at and working from a succession of addresses. He also travelled widely within the UK to air his views about British rule in India.

Sources include: English Heritage

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