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
Creations i
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...
Other Subjects
County of Middlesex
Former county. It became a shire in the 10th century, but most of the area was lost to the County of London with the passing of the Local Government Act of 1888. It officially ceased to exist in 19...
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
Husband of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Born London. Campaigned with his wife Emmeline for votes for women. Died at the Manor House Hospital, London.
Henry Pelham
Prime Minister. Born London. Died in the house he had had built in 1740-3, now 22 Arlington Street. We think this is probably the house with the plaque overlooking Green Park.
Professor Banister Fletcher
Architect and surveyor. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. He and his sons, Banister Flight Fletcher and Herbert Phillips Fletcher, formed the architectural practice: Banister Fletcher &...
Person, Architecture, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration, Property
Previously viewed
Greenwich Foot Tunnel - north
E14, Saunders Ness Road, Island Gardens
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the south bank of the Thames.
Edgar Wilson
Maker of model houses. Born c.1870. At the time he made the villages he was about 75 years old and living at 70 Hamilton Road, Norwood. The Friends of Vauxhall Park are very informative: "The Mode...
Tottenham High Cross
Erected between 1600 and 1609 on the site of a wooden wayside cross which was first mentioned in 1409. There is some speculation that the first structure on the site was a Roman beacon or marker. T...
Indian doctors in the NHS
The 2019 Hindustan Times provides the following: There are currently nearly 30,000 doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) who gained their primary qualifications in India. Besides, there ar...
Lord Lugard
SW7, Rutland Gate, 51
Greater London Council Lord Lugard, 1858-1945, colonial administrator, lived here, 1912-1919.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them