Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993) [PLOT 119]

Born Ethel Margaret Whigham 1st December 1912. Her father was a Scottish millionaire she was an only child. Her early years were spent in New York. In 1930 she was presented at court and voted debutante of the year.

Margaret was a glamourous and elegant woman; her clothes were by Norman Hartnell and Victor Stiebel. Her first marriage was to Charles Sweeny who formed the Eagle Squadron, they had three children. Divorced in 1947, she married Ian Douglas Campbell in 1951, this marriage end in a rather sensational divorce which is how Margaret is famously known. She died in 1993 and is buried alongside her first husband who died a few months before her.

 

Syed Al Razawi Ameer Ali (1846-1928) [PLOT119]

Founder of the Muslim League.
An Indian/British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Bengal Presidency. He was a prominent political leader, and author of a number of influential books on Muslim history and the modern development of Islam, he is credited for his contributions to the Law of India, particularly Muslim Personal Law, as well as the development of political philosophy for Muslims, during the British Raj. He was a signatory to the 1906 Petition to the Viceroy and was thus a founding-member of the All India Muslim League.

Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858) [PLOT 100]

German pianist, composer, poet, and writer.
Kinkel was an author of considerable merit. She wrote on musical subjects, including regular review articles of music events for the Bonner Zeitung, a newspaper she and her husband edited. An autobiographical novel of hers, Hans Ibeles in London, was published posthumously in 1860. She had a substantial output of musical compositions and wrote music for her children. She died on 15 November 1858 in London and is buried with her daughters Marie Kinkel (January–February 1861) and Johanna Kinkel (1845-1863).

Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907) Alice Drysdale (1844-1929) [PLOT 108]

Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907) Alice Drysdale (1844-1929) [PLOT 108]

Doctor and engineer. Founder of the Malthusian League.
Charles was an English engineer, physician and public health scientist, and the first President of the Malthusian League. He published books on the topics of the evils of prostitution and the dangers of tobacco smoking.

Doctor and promotor of birth control. President of Malthusian League.
Alice was an English physician, campaigner for women’s rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life partner, Charles Robert Drysdale, actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and destigmatisation of illegitimacy.

Bennet Graham Burleigh (1840-1914) [PLOT105]

Journalist.

Born in Glasgow, he began work as a shipping clerk at the age of 20. Shortly afterwards, he was forced to marry one of the family’s servants after getting her pregnant. Burley left for North America with another clerk to take part in the American Civil War. He joined the Confederates, disrupting Union ship traffic. Burley was captured in May 1864 but escaped a month later. He took part in a raid on Lake Erie in September 1864. Burley had convinced a Canadian cousin in Guelph, to manufacture munitions for use in that raid. He returned to Guelph but was later captured and extradited to the United States. The jury deadlocked at his first trial and he was returned to jail to await a second trial. Burley was able to escape to Canada and returned to Scotland. At this point, he changed his name to Bennet Burleigh.

In 1881, he was hired by the London Telegraph to cover the war in Sudan. He was a correspondent for the Central News Agency during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. Burleigh was the first to report the failure of the Gordon relief expedition, which led to the slaughter of the Khartoum garrison. He also covered the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. He authored several books on his experiences reporting on conflicts. Burleigh ran unsuccessfully several times for Glasgow seats in the British parliament. He died in Bexhill on June 17, 1914. Burleigh is thought by some to be a model for the correspondent Gilbert Torpenhow in Rudyard Kipling’s The Light that Failed.