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...
Other Subjects
Sir Thomas Hallifax
Politician. Born in Barnsley. 1753 was one of the three founders of what became Glyn, Mills & Co. Bank. Lord Mayor of London 1776 - 1777, and Member of Parliament for Coventry and then Aylesbur...
Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. In the latter role he was associated with the taxes against which the Peasants Revolted and so, along with Robert Hales, he was dragged fro...
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. ...
Thomas Baring
Banker and politician, grandson of the bank founder Sir Francis. Born Lee, near Lewisham, Kent. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Died at Fontmell Lodge, Bournemouth.
Charles D. Steel
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
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