Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Porbunder in Gujarat. Assassinated in Delhi on the way to prayers. There is another statue of Gandhi in Britain, in Leicester, unveiled in June 2009.
2019: TelegraphIndia has an interesting article that refers to a planned statue in London's East End that was never erected.
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Mahatma Gandhi
We could find no evidence that the Raghuveers were married but it seems very ...
Friendship Tree (Koelreutaria paniculata or Pride of India) planted by Lord M...
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - s...
{On the front of the plinth:} Mahatma Gandhi {On the base of the statue, at ...
Easteight gives some interesting information about this mural. Mike Jones fin...
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Mahatma Gandhi
{Beneath the Solidarity emblem:} In memory of Giles Vernon Hart a lifelong ca...
Playwright, author and politician. Born Terence James MacSwiney in Cork. Elected as MP for Mid Cork in 1918, and as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. On 12th August 1920, he was arrested by the British f...
Nationalist, teacher, journalist and independence activist. Born Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the Ratnagiri district, India. He joined the Indian National Congress, but opposed its moderate attitude. Imp...
Blacksmith, born in St Keverne, Cornwall. See Thomas Flamank for the story.
Physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. Murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Medicine, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, France, Switzerland
Prebendary of St Paul's, Rural Dean of Stepney and Vicar of Bromley St Leonard for twenty years. We learn from his obituary in the Guardian of 1 March 1893 that, apart from his first 6 months and ...
The full name of the building "The Samuel Augustine Courtauld Institute of Bio-Chemistry" is carved in large lettering along this frontag...
Yeomanry regiment which saw service in the Second Boer War with 40 and 59 Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry and also served in Belgium and France during WW1. In 1922, the regiment became part of t...
In our photo the Hamilton plaque is on the wall just to the left of the left-most bollard; the Winant plaque is one of the three white pl...
During construction, the tunnel was flooded on six separate occasions the worst being the second flooding, on 12 January 1828, in which six workmen died. "Near shift change. Isambard was in the sh...
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