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• Mitchell, Sheila
  British sculptor in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Moll, Henri
  French colonial soldier who fought in Indochina and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Moll, Ronald
  British sculptor.
• Moncel de Perrin de Cabrilles Labrassaguier, Alphonse-Emmanuel
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Montford, Horace
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Montgomery, Bernard
  British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence, the Arab Revolt and the Second World War. Montgomery was the son of Henry Montgomery, who was Bishop of Tasmania from 1889 to 1901, and spent his early childhood in the colony.
• Monti, Raffaele
  Italian sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Moore, John
  British politician and slave-trader in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Moore was Member of Court of Assistants for the Royal African Company (1687–9 and 1700–1702), Member of Parliament for the City of London (1685-1687), and Lord Mayor of London (1681–82). Moore was also a shareholder in the East India Company.
• Moore, John Francis
  German-born sculptor active in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
• Moore, Lt. Gen. Sir John
  British Army general in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Moore was involved in consolidating British colonial rule in St. Lucia between 1796 and 1797, having been appointed Commandant and Governor of the island, and helped to re-establish its slave society. Moore also fought to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Moreau-Vauthier, Paul
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Morice, Léopold
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Morley, Samuel
  British abolitionist and Member of Parliament for Nottingham (1865–1866) and Bristol (1868–1885). Morley was an important supporter of Josiah Henson, an escaped enslaved American, during his travels in Britain.
• Mossman, John
  Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of David Livingstone in Glasgow and the statue of Thomas Ormiston in Mumbai.
• Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
  British statesman, naval officer, and colonial administrator. Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India in 1947 and the first Governor-General of India from 1947 to 1948.
• Mowbray Taubman, Frank
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Napier, Charles James
  British Army officer and colonial administrator in the nineteenth century. Napier was Governor of Sindh from 1843 to 1847 and Commander-in-Chief, India from 1849 to 1851.
• Napier, Robert, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
  British Indian Army officer in the nineteenth century. Napier fought in several colonial conflicts in India and China, as well as leading the British expedition to Abyssinia from 1867 to 1868.
• Nasso, Jean-Claude
  French Guadeloupean sculptor active in the twenty-first century.
• Ndugu M’Hali
  Ndugu M’Hali was a young enslaved African who was given to Henry Morton Stanley by a slave trader to at the age of eight years old. Stanley "freed" M'Hali, called him by the name "Kalulu", and took him as a servant to Europe, America and the Seychelles. He also took several photograph portraits with M'Hali and wrote a novel titled My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave: A Story of Central Africa in 1873. M’Hali died aged twelve in a waterfall accident during Stanley's first trans-Africa expedition in 1877.
• Neill, James George Smith
  British military officer of the East India Company, who fought in the Second Burmese War (1852-1853), the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
• Nelson, Horatio
  British naval commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, who is widely remembered for his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21st 1805. His wife, Frances "Fanny" Nelson (1758-1831), was born to a wealthy family of slave-owners in the British colony of Nevis in the Caribbean.
• Nemon, Oscar
  Croatian sculptor in the twentieth century.
• Nicholson, John
  British Army officer with the East India Company in the nineteenth century. Nicholson was instrumental in the violent suppression of the Indian Rebellion in 1857.
• Nicoli, Carlo
  Italian sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Nightingale, Florence
  English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing. Nightingale was involved in efforts to study and improve sanitation in India in the wake of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Nightingale's travels to Egypt in the mid-nineteenth century also represent an interesting contribution to the field of Egyptology, with her impressions of the country recorded in Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850.
• Nixon, Samuel
  British sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Noble, Matthew
  British sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of James Outram in London, the statue of James George Smith Neill in Ayr, and the statue of Queen Victoria in Mumbai.
• Noël, Edme-Anthony-Paul
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Northcote, Stafford, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
  British politician who served as President of the Board of Trade (1866-1867), Secretary of State for India (1867) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1886-1887) among many other positions.
• Nost, John
  Flemish sculptor in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
• Nott, William
  British colonial military officer of the East India Company, who fought in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan during the first half of the nineteenth century.
• O.B., Solomon
• O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emilien
  French sculptor of Dutch descent in the nineteenth century. A royalist, he was close to the Napoleon III court and created busts of political figures. Napoleon III appointed him Intendant des Beaux-Arts and Director of the Museums.
• Olry, Jean-Baptiste Léon
  Jean-Baptiste Léon Olry was born in Nancy on February 8, 1832. After studying at the naval academy, he took part in the Crimean War (1852-1856) as an ensign, then as a lieutenant and commander in the Chinese and Cochinchina campaigns of the 1860s. Appointed Governor of New Caledonia in 1878, he violently suppressed the great Kanak revolt led by Chief Ataï. Ataï was killed by a Kanak auxiliary of the French army, and the insurgents were executed or deported to the Isle of Pines, the Belep Islands or northern New Caledonia. He initiated land reforms favorable to the colonists: authorizations to occupy land were granted without the land being legally demarcated, before the colonists' private property was organized through a system of concessions. In 1880, he was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor and left New Caledonia. He continued his career in the administration of the navy and died on November 10, 1890.
• Orwell, George
  English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name 'George Orwell'. Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bengal in 1903 to Richard Walmesley Blair, an Indian Civil Service agent, and Ida Mabel Blair. Orwell's great-great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was an absentee slave-owner of two estates in Jamaica. Orwell had a complex relationship to the British Empire and class society in twentieth century Britain. From 1922 to 1927, he served as a police officer with the Imperial Indian Police in colonial Burma. Orwell would later recount his colonial experiences in several writings, including the novel Burmese Days (1934) and the essays 'A Hanging' (1931) and 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936).
• Oswald, James
  Scottish merchant and politician in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Oswald's wealth firmly derived from the proceeds of transatlantic slavery, both through his own familial network and his commercial interests as a cotton manufacturer. His father, Alexander Oswald (1738-1813), was a 'tobacco lord' in Glasgow, while his cousin, Richard Alexander Oswald (1771-1841), was awarded slavery compensation for the Pemberton Valley estate and Boscabelle Pen in Jamaica. Legacies of British Slavery has possibly linked Oswald himself to further compensation claims in Jamaica, but there is no evidence at present to fully confirm this. As Member of Parliament for Glasgow, Oswald did support Parliamentary moves towards the abolition of slavery in 1834, when he assisted representatives of the pro-slavery Glasgow West India Association on their visit to London, as well as an abolitionist petition calling for an end of the apprenticeship system in the British Caribbean. Oswald's changing position on the question of slavery may have been the result of a shift in his own personal values, but it could equally have been a commercial recognition of the broader shift towards free-trade in Britain.
• Oudot, Georges
  French sculptor in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Outram, James, 1st Baronet
  British general who fought in India, Afghanistan and Iran in the nineteenth century
• Palmer, Charles, 1st Baronet
  English shipbuilder and politician in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Palmer was the founder of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company (1852-1933), which supported Britain's maritime empire by building ships for military and commercial usage. As Member of Parliament for North Durham (1874-1885) and Jarrow (1885-1907), Palmer took an interest in imperial affairs, contributing to debates over the Suez Canal in 1882 and 1883 as well as raising concern over the Nisero Incident in 1884.
• Pankhurst, Sylvia
  Feminist, socialist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonialist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Sylvia broke with her mother's leadership of the suffragette movement in 1914 and went on to defend Ethiopia during the Italian Invasion of 1935-1937. Sylvia formed a close friendship with Emperor Haile Selassie and died in Ethiopia in 1960.
• Pankurst, Emmeline
  British political activist in the the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who organised the suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote in Britain. The importance of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her family to the feminist movement in Britain is well-established and has been celebrated for some time. The Pankhurst family's complex relationship to imperialism, however, is less well known. After the First World War, for instance, Emmeline spent a number of years in Canada and North America, where she promoted support for the British Empire and eugenic feminist ideas of "race betterment". By way of contrast, Emmeline's daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), was an ardent feminist, socialist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonialist. Sylvia broke with her mother's leadership in 1914 and went on to defend Ethiopia during the Italian Invasion of 1935-1937. Sylvia formed a close friendship with Emperor Haile Selassie and died in Ethiopia in 1960.
• Panzetta, Joseph
  Italian sculptor working in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
• Park, Mungo
  Scottish explorer in West Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. During his two expeditions to the continent (1795-1797; 1805), Park actively used enslaved people to aid his explorations. During his life, Park briefly worked as a ship surgeon. In 1793, Park worked onboard the East India Company ship 'Worcester' travelling to Bengkulu in Indonesia. In 1797, Park again worked as a ship surgeon, this time onboard a slave trade ship named 'Charleston' travelling from West Africa to Charleston, South Carolina [Voyage ID 25406, Slave Voyages database]. The voyage across the Middle Passage was disrupted and the ship was eventually forced to land in Antigua. A total of 129 enslaved people were held in captivity on board the ship and 11 died during the voyage. As Secretary of the African Association, Bryan Edwards, a major slave-owner in Jamaica and pro-slavery politician, helped to edit and publish Park's narrative of his 1795-1797 expedition.
• Parker, Albert Edward, 3rd Earl of Morley
  Chairman of Devon County Council in the early twentieth century.
• Parrenin, Dominique
  French missionary in China in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• Partridge, William Ordway
  American sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Pascoe, Silu
• Patel, Priti
  Home Secretary (2019-2022)
• Pearce, William
  British shipbuilder in the nineteenth century. In 1869, he took over management of the shipbuilding firm John Elder & Co, which was was actively involved in supporting Britain's naval empire and imperial commerce. Some of the company's clients included the African Mail Company and the African Steamship Company. Pearce converted the firm to a limited company called the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co in 1886.