Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

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Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE is a well-known British scholar with an expertise on Lucknow and its culture.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121109041053/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/01/22/stories/2007012200770200.htm Preserving the Raj heritage] The Hindu, 22 January 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2011. Based in London, where she worked for the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Llewellyn-Jones is a regular visitor to Lucknow and has authored several books on the city.

Her partner for many years was Lt. General Stanley Menezes of the Indian Army (1942–1980).{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9393214/Lt-Gen-Stanley-Menezes.html|title = Lt-Gen Stanley Menezes| date=11 July 2012 }}

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia and to British Indian studies.{{London Gazette|issue=61092|supp=y|page=N21|date=31 December 2014}}[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf 2015 New Year Honours List]

Selected Bibliography

  • (2003), A man of the enlightenment in eighteenth-century India: the letters of Claude Martin, 1766-1800. New Delhi: Permanent Black.
  • (2003), Lucknow: then and now, edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, with photographs by Ravi Kapoor. Mumbai: Marg.
  • (2014), The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah, London, Hurst & Co.
  • (2022), Lucknow, 1857. HarperCollins India.

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