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
J. W. Ward
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
Charles William Key
Born Buckinghamshire into a poor family. Became teacher then headmaster. Alderman in 1937 and in 1946 MP for Bow and Bromley and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.
Sir Sydney H. Waterlow
Philanthropist. Born in Crown Street, now Sun Street, EC2. Brought up in Mile End. Followed his father and brothers into the stationery and printing business. 1963 founded, and chaired, the philan...
Peter Paul Rubens
Artist and diplomat. Born in Siegen, Westphalia (modern day Germany). He studied art in Antwerp and Venice, and entered the service of Vincenzo Gonzago, Duke of Mantua, where he began a parallel ca...
Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Belgium, Germany, Italy
Colin Ward
Anarchist writer. Born Wanstead. Served in the army in WW2, and worked as an architect 1952 - 61. Published on education, architecture and town planning. Guardian obit.
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