Who was Madan Lal Dhingra?

About Madan Lal Dhingra:

• He was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter.
• He was born on 18 February 1883 in Amritsar.
• Dhingra received his early education in Amritsar and later moved to England for further studies. He enrolled at University College, London, where he studied engineering.
• While in England, Dhingra became deeply involved in the activities of the Indian independence movement.
• He came in contact with the revolutionaries like Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Shyamji Krishna Varma, the founder of Indian House, and several others.
• Curzon Wyllie's assassination:
  • On July 1, 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a retired British Indian Army officer and a prominent official, during a public meeting in London's Imperial Institute.
  • During the trial, he claimed that he had murdered Curzon-Wyllie as a patriotic act and in revenge for the inhumane killings of Indians by the British Government in India. 
  • He was found guilty and sentenced to death. 
  • He was hanged to death on August 17, 1909, at the age of only 24.
• He was disowned by his family for his anti-British leanings – so much so that even after his death his family refused to take his body.