Martyr
Madan Lal Dhingra
ਮਦਨ ਲਾਲ ਢੀਂਗਰਾمدن لال ڈھینگرا
Student from Amritsar who shot Sir William Curzon Wyllie in London in 1909 and was hanged at Pentonville.
Madan Lal Dhingra was born in Amritsar in 1883 to a wealthy family and went to study engineering in London, where he fell in with the revolutionaries of India House.
On 1 July 1909 he shot Sir William Curzon Wyllie, an official of the India Office, at the Imperial Institute. He was hanged at Pentonville prison in August, after a defiant statement from the dock.