Rupert Bear Cartoon Illustrator. Invited to take over the "Rupert Bear" strip in 1935 when its originator, Mary Tourtel, had to retire due to failing eyesight, he developed and wrote over 270 Rupert adventures, and remained the regular artist and author until his...

  Lawyer and prominent Muslim leader. William changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, he was a 19th-century convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.

Novelist who also translated the Qur’an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world. A convert from Christianity, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and E. M....

Founder of Café Royal in London. Born as Daniel Nicolas Thévenon in Champlost in Burgundy in France and the son of Jean Baptiste Thévenon, he was apprenticed to a coachbuilder in Sens before moving in the early 1850s to Paris, where he continued to work as a...

Civil Servant and Academic.Noted for his translation of the Qur’an into English.A British-Indian barrister and Shi'i scholar in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition who wrote a number of books about Islam including a translation of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war...

Author.She was the second daughter of Amir Ali Haidar who was Grand Sharif of Makkah and Isabel Dunn. It is claimed the Princess and her father are direct descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. She was born in Chamlujah Istanbul. The family came to England where she met...

Richard Ansdell was a British painter of animals and genre scenes. Ansdell was born on 11 May 1815 in Liverpool (then in Lancashire), the son of Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a ships’ pulley block maker at Liverpool docks and Anne Jackson. His father died young and...

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was an Iraqi-British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UKs most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame...

DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a tall neo-Grec stele. Over a rectangular base with inscription is a relief, designed by Evelyn de Morgan, showing an angel with outstretched arms, pleading with a female figure of Death, with inverted torch, who turns her back....