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dated September 17, 1953: London Memorials for Gandhiji and Jinnah

On the 14th, the London County Council announced that its Town Planning Committee would put up two blue and white memorial plaques to commemorate the residence in London of India's Mahatma Gandhi, and Mr. M. A. Jinnah, the late founder of Pakistan. The plaque dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi was to be erected at Kingsley Hall in the East End of London, where the Indian apostle-leader had stayed in 1931 when he came to participate in the Round Table Conference. The room that Mahatma Gandhi occupied then was preserved in the building, with a portrait of Bapu, some of his writings, and a statuette.

The memorial tablet to Mr. Jinnah would at 35, Russell Road, Kingston. Mr. Jinnah had come to London to study law at Lincoln's Inn between 1892 and 1896. A register of readers at the British Museum gave the information that in February 1895 he had been living at 35, Russel Road. The London County Council statement said that this had been confirmed by Mr. Jinnah's sister, Miss Fatima Jinnah.

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