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 Peace Grove
Gandhi Peace Grove - 50 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Independen...
Gandhi statue - Bloomsbury
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - s...
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Captain William Browell
Naval officer. 1799, in command of the Sanspareil, was crippled in an accident, and rendered unfit for active service. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1809 until his death.
1 memorial
John Wilkes
A champion of English freedom, establishing the campaigning newspaper "The North Briton". In his 1754 'Essay on Woman' he wrote: 'Life can little more supply than just a few good f**ks and then w...
1 memorial
Henry E. Poole
Secretary to the Commissioners for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. Became librarian in Great Smith Street in March 1881 and went on to be employed by Westminster City Council as a branch libra...
1 memorial
Col. Robert Slingsby
Naval officer and administrator. Died of typhus at home in Lime Street. Some information at Pepys' Diary.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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PP - 2A - Smith
EC1, Edward Street
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police constable is odd. It doesn't even seem as if a fire was involved.
Civilian war dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
SE1, Tower Bridge Road
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.
War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Alexander Fleming
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
6 memorials
Michael and Vivien Noakes
NW8, Hamilton terrace, 146
Plaque unveiled by Sir David Attenborough and, unusually by one of those commemorated on the plaque, Michael Noakes, who now lives in Mal...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
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