Born India. Being in the air force he married Agatha while on leave, on Christmas Eve, 1914. He rose to colonel. After the war he got a job in the City and then one which took him and his family around the world. In December 1926 his declaration of love for another woman prompted Agatha's much publicised 10 day disappearance. They divorced in 1928. The picture shows the couple during the war.
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Archie Christie
Commemorated ati
Agatha Christie book
Unveiled on the 60th anniversary of The Mousetrap, this bronze, 2.5 m high 'b...
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Lokamanya Tilak
Nationalist and journalist. Born Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the Ratnagiri district, India. He joined the Indian National Congress, but opposed its moderate attitude. Imprisoned for sedition in 1908. He...
1 memorial
Antony Lloyd
Married the daughter of the architect, William Curtis Green, who in the 1930s took Lloyd into the practice that he had founded in 1898. The style was initially heavily influenced by Edwin Lutyens a...
3 memorials
Ali Mohammed Abbas
Barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan. Ali Mohammed Abbas was born on 1 January 1922 in West Bengal, India (now Pakistan) and according to the Open University website he came to London tow...
Person, Law, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, India, Pakistan
1 memorial
Thomas Cubitt
Builder. Born at Buxton, near Norwich. He travelled to India as a ship's carpenter, from which he was able to raise sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810. His two brothers: Willi...
5 memorials
George Orwell
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
12 memorials
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