{"id":49842,"date":"2022-11-01T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/discovering-britains-first-asian-mp"},"modified":"2022-11-01T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:23:20","slug":"discovering-britains-first-asian-mp-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49842","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Britain\u2019s first Asian MP | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre was the first, not Dadabhai Naoroji, says <strong>Tony Berrett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) was the first Asian MP, not Dadabhai Naoroji, as Dr Peter Chadha and Zaki Cooper claim (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/25\/rishi-sunaks-arrival-as-prime-minister-is-a-historic-moment-for-us\" title=\"\">Letters, 25 October<\/a>). Dyce Sombre was elected for the borough of Sudbury in 1841 and subsequently expelled for fraud at that election. The story is now widely known, being the subject of Michael H Fisher\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2010\/aug\/01\/inordinately-strange-life-dyce-sombre-review\" title=\"\">The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre<\/a> (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Dyce Sombre may be regarded as a more controversial character than Naoroji, but that is no reason to forget history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/discovering-britains-first-asian-mp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre was the first, not Dadabhai Naoroji, says Tony BerrettDavid Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) was the first Asian MP, not Dadabhai Naoroji, as Dr Peter Chadha and Zaki Cooper claim (Letters, 25 October). Dyce Sombre was elec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,2230,1832,62,4,362,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-british-empire","category-house-of-commons","category-india","category-politics","category-race","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49842\/revisions\/49843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}