Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Born: 9 November 1931

Died: 6 October 2007

He was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer, and diplomat.
He was, after V. K. Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97).
He was conferred Padma Bhushan in 1998.
In 1991, Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao appointed him High Commissioner to the Court of St. James.
It is a measure of his reputation and professionalism that he remained in that office till 1997, undisturbed during the brief tenures of the next two Prime Ministers.
This made him, after VK Krishna Menon, the second longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97), a record the more remarkable for having overlapped with the terms of four Indian Prime Ministers.
In 1993, during his term as High Commissioner, he spearheaded the Indian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.
The same year, he was invited by the University of Cambridge to deliver the Rede Lecture, the topic being his own book, ‘A Tale of Three Cities.’
He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
In 1993, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India, and an honorary degree of LLD by the University of Buckingham.
The Supreme Court of India held the ‘First Dr. L.M. Singhvi memorial lecture on ‘Law, Technology, and Society: Its dynamics’ on 17 January 2009, delivered by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India.