Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet and philosopher. First non-European Nobel Laureate. Born into a large, rich, assimilated family which had made its fortune from the East India Company. Â He read law at University Colle...
3 memorials
The government of Tamilnadu
Tamilnadu is the state in the south-east part of India.
1 memorial
R.H. Tawney
Born Calcutta, India. Died in a nursing home in Fitzroy Square. Economic/social historian, Christian socialist and founding father of the welfare state.
2 memorials
William Thackeray
Novelist. Born Calcutta, full name William Makepeace Thackeray. Â Best known for the novel: Vanity Fair. Died suddenly from a stroke having returned home to Onslow Square after dining out. He was fo...
10 memorials
Keib Thomas
Community worker, inspirational community activist, volunteer, & teacher, devoted to ethnic & inter-faith harmony, justice and equality. Born in Wales, he moved to London and worked for sev...
2 memorials
Lokamanya Tilak
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...
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Tiruvalluvar
Author of the Tirukkural, the classic text of Tamil philosophy and ethics. The Tamil poet is commonly believed to have been born in the First Century BC in Madras (now called Chennai) in south ea...
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Air Marshal Lord Hugh Montague Trenchard
Founder of the Royal Air Force. Â Born Somerset. Â Aged 20 joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in India, in the Boer War and in Nigeria. Â Learnt to fly in 1912 and ser...
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Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
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Mrs Margaret Isobel Turner
Margaret Isobel Scott was born on 21 May 1861 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India, the youngest of the three children of Henry Scott (1827-1862) and Margaret Scott Lang (1838-1915). Her two brothe...
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