Baron Gulam Noon, MBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon was born on 24 January 1936 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about th...
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon was born on 24 January 1936 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about th...
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
Hero of the Indian Rebellion during which he relieved the siege of Lucknow.
Lambeth Labour Councillor 2006 – 14 and Lambeth Mayor 2010 - 11.
Daughter of Lord Paul. She died from leukaemia and the Ambika Paul Foundation which supports charitable causes, was set up in her memory.
Business magnate, philanthropist and politician. Born Swraj Paul at Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He moved to England in 1966 to get treatment for his daughter who was suffering from leukaemia. Founded...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, India
Frederick William Pay was born in 1883 in Gunnersbury, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of William Thomas Pay (1858-1912) and Sarah Ann Pay née Pearce (1859-1930). Hi...
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
Philanthropist. Born Stella Charnaud in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. She is best remembered as the founder of the Women's Voluntary Services (now known as the Royal Voluntary Service). In...
Person, Philanthropy, India, Turkey, USA
Companion of the Star of India, a wealthy Parsi gentleman of Bombay. His grandfather and two great-uncles had made their names, literally, in the opium trade with China (facilitated by the British)...
Person, Engineering, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, India