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Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser  

Khizar Humayun Ansari

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13 April 2023

Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser, was born on 29 June 1940 in Durban, South Africa, the son of Shaik Abdulla, an Indian landowner and businessman of Hyderabadi origin, based in Durban, and his wife Mosida Ismail, née Abraham, a doctor, from a ...

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Raficq Abdulla (1940–2019), by unknown photographer

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Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928), judge and Muslim leader in India  

S. V. FitzGerald

revised by Roger T. Stearn

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928), judge and Muslim leader in India, was born on 6 April 1849 at Chinsura, Bengal, the fourth son of Saiyid Saadat Ali Khan (who died of cholera in 1856) of Mohan, Oudh, and his wife, the daughter of Shamsuddin Khan...

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Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928)  

Maker: Walter Stoneman

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Saiyid Ameer Ali (1849–1928) by Walter Stoneman, 1917 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Haq, Abul Kashem Fazlul (1873–1962), lawyer and politician in India and Pakistan  

Ian Talbot

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24 May 2007

Haq, Abul Kashem Fazlul (1873–1962), lawyer and politician in India and Pakistan, was born on 26 October 1873 at Saturia, a village in the south of the Bakerganj district of Bengal, the only son of Muhammad Wazid, lawyer, and his wife, Saidunnissa Khatun...

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Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713–1776), traveller and criminal  

Isobel Grundy

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713–1776), traveller and criminal, was born in London on 16 May 1713, the elder child and only son of Edward Wortley Montagu (1678–1761), MP, diplomat, and entrepreneur, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (bap. 1689, d. 1762), writer and traveller. In 1716 ...

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Quilliam, William Henry [known as Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam; Haroon Mustapha Leon] (1856–1932), lawyer and Muslim leader  

John Guilford

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Quilliam, William Henry [known as Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam; Haroon Mustapha Leon] (1856–1932), lawyer and Muslim leader, was born on 10 April 1856 at 22 Elliot Street, Liverpool, the son of Robert Quilliam, watch manufacturer, and his wife, Harriet, née Burrows. He was of Manx descent (and at one point active in the ...

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Tyabji, Badruddin (1844–1906)  

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Badruddin Tyabji (1844–1906) by unknown photographer, 1891 © reserved

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Tyabji, Badruddin (1844–1906), judge and reformer in India  

F. H. Brown

revised by Jim Masselos

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Tyabji, Badruddin (1844–1906), judge and reformer in India, was born at Bombay on 10 October 1844, the eighth of ten children and the fifth of six sons of a Cambay merchant, Tyab Ali (also known as Tyabji Bhai Mian; 1803–1863), and his wife, ...

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Verney, Sir Francis (1584–1615), pirate  

Nabil Matar

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Verney, Sir Francis (1584–1615), pirate, was the elder son of Edmund Verney (1535–1600) of Penley, Hertfordshire, and Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, who was knighted in 1597 or 1598. Sir Edmund's first marriage had been childless and Francis's mother was his second wife, Audrey (1543–1588)...

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Ward, John [called Issouf Reis, Captain Wardiyya] (c. 1553–1623?)  

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Ward, John [called Issouf Reis, Captain Wardiyya] (c. 1553–1623?)

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Ward, John [called Issouf Reis, Captain Wardiyya] (c. 1553–1623?), pirate  

David R. Ransome

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ward, John [called Issouf Reis, Captain Wardiyya] (c. 1553–1623?), pirate, was said to have been a fisherman at Faversham, Kent, perhaps (from an informant's estimate of his age as fifty-five in 1608) born about 1553. He was later at Plymouth, where he joined the ...