Hilda Seligman

Hilda Mary Seligman (née McDowell; 18 January 1882 – 20 December 1964)[1] was a British sculptor, author and campaigner.

During the inter-war period, Seligman entertained Mahatma Gandhi and the Emperor Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, London.

The fund was set up with royalties from her book Skippo of Nonesuch (1943) about a goat named 'Skippo', and donations and gifts from Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Isobel Cripps.

[8] Seligman created a bust of Haile Selassie from life in 1936 during his exile from Ethiopia, when he stayed at Selgman's family home, Lincoln House.

5 of Parliament House, on a red sandstone pedestal, bearing the inscription "Shepherd boy Chandragupta Maurya, dreaming of the India he was to create".