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...
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The Calcutta Times
Indian newspaper. It was edited at one time by Meredith White Townsend, but the only reference we can find to it now, is as a supplement to the Times of India.
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The Friend of India
One of the oldest newspapers of India. It was started in the early nineteenth century as a weekly journal, and later incorporated The Indian Observer.
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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...
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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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Meredith White Townsend
Journalist. Born in Bures, Suffolk. In 1848 he went to India and became editor of 'The Friend of India'. Returning to England in 1860, he jointly, with Richard Holt Hutton, purchased The Spectator ...
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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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Gunner Robert Henry Walter Trigg
Robert Henry Walter Trigg was born circa 1903 in Camberley, Surrey, the eldest son of Walter Trigg (1874-1967) and Sarah Ann Trigg née Gale (1870-1944). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter ...
War dead, WW2
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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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