Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree

Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree , wire of a merchant Parsi, born with Bombay in 1851, deceased in 1933, was the first British of Indian origin to being elected for the Conservative party with the House of Commons, of 1895 with 1906 in the London district of Bethnal Green. The first British member of Parliament of Indian origin, Dadabhai Naoroji (), also resulting from a parsy family, had been elected in 1892 for the Liberal party.

Since then, this district of London belongs to Tower Hamlets, a municipality where more of the third of the population is originating in the Bangladesh and whose district of Spitalfields carries the semi-official name of “Banglatown”.

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• Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, MP for Bethnal Green, 1895-1906, Image off the Month: October 2003, The United Kingdom Parliament

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