Dr. L. M. Singhvi

Dr. L. M. Singhvi

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...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

10 memorials
John Sinnott VC

John Sinnott VC

Soldier. Born in Wexford, Ireland. He was a lance corporal in the 84th regiment of the British army. On 8th October at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, he and two other soldiers went out to rescue...

Person, Armed Forces, India, Ireland

War served, Other war
1 memorial
H. F. C. Skinner

H. F. C. Skinner

Second Lieutenant Hilary Francis Cleveland Skinner was born on 10 October 1889 in Raipur, India, the elder son of John Allan Cleveland Skinner (1865-1925) and Augusta Beatrice Skinner née Newman (1...

Person, India

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
George Sparkes

George Sparkes

London Parks and Gardens Trust provides: In the 1850s No 16 High Street {Bromley} ... was bought by George Sparkes ...{who} renamed the house Neelgherries after the hills of Nilgiris (an alternativ...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

1 memorial
Sir Basil Spence

Sir Basil Spence

Architect. Born Basil Urwin Spence in Bombay. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he won many prizes. His most famous work is probably the new Coventry cathedral which was completed i...

Person, Architecture, India

1 memorial
Sir Herbert Stewart

Sir Herbert Stewart

Promoted to Major-General after his service at Abu Klea, Sudan. Born at Sparsholt, Hampshire. Died travelling from Khartoum to Korti and was buried near the wells at Jakdul.

Person, Armed Forces, Africa, India

1 memorial
Frank Stubbs

Frank Stubbs

Soldier. Born Frank Edward Stubbs in Walworth. He served in India before WW1. On 25th April 1915 he was with the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers attempting to make a landing on the Gallip...

Person, Armed Forces, India, Turkey

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet and philosopher. First non-European Nobel Laureate. Born into a large, rich, assimilated family which had made its fortune from the East India Company.  He read law at University Colle...

Person, Poetry, Bengal, India

3 memorials
The government of Tamilnadu

The government of Tamilnadu

Tamilnadu is the state in the south-east part of India.

Group, Politics & Administration, India

1 memorial
R.H. Tawney

R.H. Tawney

Born Calcutta, India. Died in a nursing home in Fitzroy Square. Economic/social historian, Christian socialist and founding father of the welfare state.

Person, Economist, History, India

2 memorials
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