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 statue - Bloomsbury
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - s...
India Place named
On 26 January 1950 the Constitution of India came into force and India declar...
Other Subjects
Sir Kingsley Collett, CBE, DLit, Deputy
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
1 memorial
D. T. Griffiths
Town Clerk in Southwark Council in 1936 - 47, at least.
1 memorial
Herbert Morrison
Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary of Biography; Wikipedia differs). Leader of the London County Council, 1934–1940. As Minister of Supply briefly in 1940...
4 memorials
John Edward Sly
Chairman of the Smithfield Central Market Sub Committee in 1888.
1 memorial
London Borough of Merton
Formed under the London Government Act 1963, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
4 memorials
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Gatti family
WC2, The Strand
There is an interesting memorial to the power supply just around the corner.
4 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
All Hallows the Less
This medieval church was destroyed, along with most of the churches in the City, by the Great Fire in 1666. In 1670 Parliament passed a Rebuilding Act and a committee was set up under the stewardsh...
1 memorial
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice
Civil engineer. Born at Clogher, near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He worked on a wide range of projects around the world including the Forth Bridge, the Aswam Dam and the aborted Chignecto Ship ...
7 memorials
Dr Walther Model von Thunen
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building. See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in...
1 subject commemorated
Burlington House - Flaxman
W1, Piccadilly, Royal Academy
This building is commonly known as the Royal Academy (of Arts). The wings of the building are occupied by a number of learned societies, ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator