Sake Dean Mahomed blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Sake Dean Mahomed 1759-1851 born in India, Shampooing Surgeon to George IV and William IV opened his Indian Medicated Vapour Baths here in 1821 Recorded plaque organisation: City of Brighton & Hove.

Sake Dean Mahomed, born in 1759 in Bengal, was a pioneering figure who became the first Indian immigrant to settle in Britain, opening an Indian restaurant in London and serving as Shampooing Surgeon to two British monarchs.