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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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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Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale
Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and firs...
1 memorial
Miriam Moses
Social reformer, OBE, JP. Born 17 Princelet Street. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has "19" but perhaps the street was renumbered when it was renamed from Princes to Princelet Street....
2 memorials
Samuel Baylis
Lived on Whitecross Street and was a founder of the Radical Club.
1 memorial
J. Cox
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
1 memorial
Sir George Barham
Invented the milk churn and campaigned for cleaner milk. Son of a dairyman. In 1864 in Museum Street/Coptic Street established the Express Country Milk Supply Company which sold milk. He also estab...
1 memorial