Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Cannizaro Park. She travelled in India, and founded the Skippo Fund, which supplied the first health vans to serve isolated villages in India and Pakistan. It was named for the eponymous goat in her novel Skippo of Nonesuch.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Hilda Seligman
The bust was originally located in the garden of Lincoln House, Parkside, the...
A charity administered by a council of Old Westminsters that provides financial assistance to Westminster School for the benefit of current pupils.
Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed in World War I.
Private Charles Reading Kenchatt was born on 14 October 1887 in Hendon one of the eleven children of Philip Kenchatt (1855-1935) and Phoebe Ann Kenchatt née Reading (1858-1930). His father had sev...
