Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE is a well-known British scholar with an expertise on

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

and its culture. Based in London, where she worked for the

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, Llewellyn-Jones is a regular visitor to Lucknow and has authored several books on the city. Her partner for many years was Lt. General Stanley Menezes of the Indian Army (1942–1980). She was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia and to British Indian studies.2015 New Year Honours List
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Selected Bibliography

* (2003), ''A man of the enlightenment in eighteenth-century India: the letters of Claude Martin, 1766-1800''. New Delhi: Permanent Black. * (2003), ''Lucknow: then and now'', edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, with photographs by Ravi Kapoor. Mumbai: Marg. * (2014), ''The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah'', London, Hurst & Co. * (2022), ''Lucknow, 1857''. HarperCollins India.

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