FAMOUS ANGLO-INDIANS (I – L)
APRIL 2011
Name
Occupation
Ignatius, Ernest
Actor & Singer. Ernest is the singer of the famous “I Married A Female Wrestler” record; and is now into his acting career. He played a leading role in the London, England, stage show “Bombay Dreams”. He has acted in several TV productions namely “Life is not all “Ha! Ha! Hee! Hee!” and the “Bradford Riots” which will be aired in Canada on March 28th. He was a famous singer in India, singing in the larger hotels in many major cities in India. He immigrated with his family to England in 1979.
Innes, Lieutenant General John J. McLeod
Soldier
Jackson, Commander Len
Director General Ports & Shipping, Pakistan Navy
Jacob, Russell Anthony
Australian Army Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) Recipient
James, Basil
Railway Train Driver
Jansen, Pat
Hockey Player
Played for the Calcutta Po9rt Commissioners. Achieved the position of being the top scorer of the side. In 1948, India retained the title of hockey champions of the world.
Played for the Calcutta Po9rt Commissioners. Achieved the position of being the top scorer of the side. In 1948, India retained the title of hockey champions of the world.
Jarrett, Lieutenant Hanson C.T.
Soldier
Jennings, Edward
Rough Rider
Johanns
Railway Train Driver & Recipient of the Ashoka Charkra award
Johnson
Professor & Dean
Johnson, Arthur
Indigo Factory Employee
Johnson, Leslie
Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Commission
Johnston, Dr. Benjamin
Poet
Jones, General
Soldier
Jones, Thomas Gerald
Soldier/Boxer
Jones, Wilson
World Amateur Billiards Champion
Joshua, Aaron
Boxer
Featherweight, greatest victory over Roy Ankarah of the Gold Coast
Featherweight, greatest victory over Roy Ankarah of the Gold Coast
Jotham, Captain, E.,
Soldier
Kane, Eden
Pop Singer
Karloff, Boris
Actor
Kavanagh, Thomas Henry
Clerk
Kaye, M. M.
Author — “Far Pavilions”
M M Kaye was born in Simla, the summer residence of the British viceroy and the city to which she returned every summer for the first ten years of her life.
M M Kaye was born in Simla, the summer residence of the British viceroy and the city to which she returned every summer for the first ten years of her life.
This remarkable woman has managed to reconcile the demands of being a full-time wife, mother and world traveller with a long and impressive literary career. After her education in England she returned to India and married Goff Hamilton, an officer in Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides. Her husband’s military assignments have taken her all over India as well as Egypt, Kenya, Germany, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Keelor, Denzil
Fighter Pilot and Air Marshal
Keelor, Trevor
Fighter Pilot
Kellner, F.D.
Registrar-Military Auditor-General’s Office
Kellner, Patrick
Reverend
Kellner, Sir George Welsh
Soldier
Kenny, Lieutenant W.D.
Soldier
Kerr, Captain William A.
Soldier
Kerr, Robert
Accountant-Military Auditor-General’s Office
Kirkpatrick, Colonel James Achilles
Scholar; Soldier & Administrator
Kirkpatrick, Major General William
Founded the Bengal Military Orphan Asylum
Kitto, Carlton
India’s Greatest Be-Bop Jazz Guitarist, born in Frazer Town, Bangalore. Although Jazz has taken various directions, Carl sticks to Be-Bop Jazz which he feels is the most challenging form of Jazz.
Kubes, Milton
Boxer
Kyd, James
Master Shipbuilder & formed the East Indian Club
La Fontaine, Dennis
Air Chief Marshal
La Fontaine, Shirley
Award Winning Microbiologist
Laidlaw, Sir Robert
Merchant; Benefactor & Banker
Larkins, Frank
Director of Weapons
Laski, Harold
Labour politician
Laughnan, Gunner Thomas,
Soldier
Lavender, Mark
Australian Cricketer
Lawerence, Sir John
Soldier
Lawrence, C.S.
Headed a commission for the Government of India
Lazaro, D.
Squadron Leader, Indian Air Force.
Vir Chakra Award recepient. 1971 India-Pakistan War hero
Vir Chakra Award recepient. 1971 India-Pakistan War hero
Lazaro, J.F. PVSM
Air Vice-Marshall. 1971 India-Parkistan War hero.
Le Vacieu (or Le Vassoult)
Commander of Artillery
Leach, General Sir E.P.
Soldier
LEADON, Richard Bruce
Cardio-Vascular Perfusionist. Speaker and Lecturer on Paediatric Cardiac Perfusion not only in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada but several countries around the globe. Born in Calcutta, India, May 2, 1936 passed away September 27, 2006, in the New Halifax
Leake, Colonel
Shikari
Legge, Thomas
Soldier
Leigh, Vivian
Actress
Leonowens, Anna
Author, & Governess in the Court of Siam — “Anna & The King of Siam”
Light, Colonel William
Designer of the City of Adelaide
Lindstedt, Charles William
Deputy Registar-Military Department
Liverpool, Lord
Prime Minister (Grandmother was an Anglo-Indian)
Lloyd, Lord
British Administrator
Lloyd, O.E.P.
Surgeon-Major
Lloyd, Vernon Alexander PVSM
Airman, Group Captain
1971 India-Pakistan War hero
1971 India-Pakistan War hero
Lockran, Gerry
Born: Gerald Cranston Frederick Loughran
Born: Gerald Cranston Frederick Loughran
Blues Singer, Poet
Lockwood, Margaret
Actress
Lopez, J.W.C.
Assistant-Surgeon
Lord, Patty
Basketball Player
Loughran, Commander Ian
Commander of 37 Squadron, (Night Fighters) Indian Air Force
Loughran, J.E.
Squadron Leader
Ludgrove, Michael
Head of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Sporting Memorabilia
Luiz, A.A.D.
Convenor of the Union of Anglo-Indian Associations
Lumb, Lionel
Journalist, TV producer and documentary-maker, journalism professor, writer. born in Lahore, moved to Calcutta, studied at St. Xavier´s and worked for The Statesman newspaper. Emigrated to England in 1963, switched from newspapers to television journalism for the BBC. Came to Canada in 1973, where he lives in Ottawa. Senior or executive producer with Global, CTV and CBC, then taught journalism at Carleton University. Retired in 2003 but still writing, and is heading up communications and PR for the Seventh World Anglo-Indian Reunion in Toronto in 2007.
LUMLEY, Joanna, OBE, FRGS
ACTRESS/MODEL — Born May 1st, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is an English actress and former model. James Lumley´s natural father is the photographer Michael Claydon and is of Anglo Indian ethnicity. Lumley was educated at St Mary´s School, Sussex. Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, Lumley spent three years as a photographic model,and is said to have made her TV debut in a well-known UK advert for Nimble bread first screened in 1969 [1]. She also worked as a house model for the late Jean Muir.
Lumsden, Anne
Hockey player
Lyons, Esther Mary
Writer/Author, “Unwanted”
Lytton, Lord
Viceroy of India