| No cheating please. In what year 21:15 - Dec 15 with 1867 views | powinswitch |
Was the first Asian MP voted in to the British parliament. |  | | |  |
| No cheating please. In what year (n/t) on 21:17 - Dec 15 with 1856 views | Swansea_Blue |
I want to day something like 2005, but I reckon it's a curve ball. So 1926. [Post edited 15 Dec 2017 21:18]
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| No cheating please. In what year (n/t) on 21:20 - Dec 15 with 1844 views | powinswitch |
| No cheating please. In what year (n/t) on 21:17 - Dec 15 by Swansea_Blue |
I want to day something like 2005, but I reckon it's a curve ball. So 1926. [Post edited 15 Dec 2017 21:18]
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I won’t answer yet, just to give everybody else a chance. | | | |
| No cheating please. In what year on 21:34 - Dec 15 with 1820 views | Darth_Koont |
1895 |  |
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| No cheating please. In what year on 21:44 - Dec 15 with 1798 views | caught-in-limbo |
1795 |  |
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| No cheating please. In what year on 21:52 - Dec 15 with 1793 views | EatonBlue |
1892 |  | | |
| No cheating please. In what year on 22:01 - Dec 15 with 1773 views | Binner |
| No cheating please. In what year on 21:52 - Dec 15 by EatonBlue |
1892 |
1918? |  |
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| No cheating please. In what year on 23:30 - Dec 15 with 1709 views | Clapham_Junction |
1841 - David Dyce Sombre from Sudbury! |  | | |
| No cheating please. In what year on 02:56 - Dec 16 with 1659 views | powinswitch |
When I started this thread I was certain in the answer, as it had been covered in a programme dedicated to the life of Dadabhai Naoraji by BBC Radio 4. Who was elected member for Finchley in 1892. Congratulations Eaton Blue, who got the answer I believe to be correct.
Clapham Junction correctly identifies David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, an Anglo-Indian returned as MP for Sudbury in 1841, but subsequently removed from office the following year due to bribery during his election. I would suggest that this gentleman’s name suggests his Asian credentials are less fulsome than Dadabhai’s who is universally (with the exception of the aforementioned Clapham) as being said first Asian British MP.
Dadabhai was then followed by two other Indian born MPs in the period until 1929. There was then no further Asian MPs until Keith Vaz in 1987. Dadabhai was an extraordinary man, whose life story is an interest8ng read. | | | |
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