Question

Who among the following assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie in London?
1. Sukhdev Thapar
2. Surya Sen
3. Madan Lal Dhingra
4. Khudiram Bose

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Madan Lal Dhingra

The correct answer is Madan Lal Dhingra.

• On 1 July 1909, in London Curzon Wyllie was assassinated by the Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra, who was a member of India House in London
• Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a British Indian army officer.
• Madan Lal Dhingra 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.
• When Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, was leaving the hall with his wife, Dhingra fired five shots right at his face, four of which hit their target.
• He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was executed at Pentonville Prison on 17 August 1909.

• ​Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 February 1883 in Amritsar, India, and died on 17 August 1909.
• He was an Indian revolutionary, pro-independence activist, while studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie.
• Curzon Wylie had joined the British Army in 1866 and the Indian Political Department in 1879. In 1901, he was selected to be Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India.
• He was also the head of the Secret Police and had been trying to obtain information about Savarkar and his fellow revolutionaries.
• On the evening of 1 July 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra, along with a large number of Indians and Englishmen had gathered to attend the annual 'At Home' function hosted by the Indian National Association at the Imperial Institute. 
  • When Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, was leaving the hall with his wife, Dhingra fired five shots right at his face, four of which hit their target. a Parsee doctor Cawas Lalcaca tried to save Curzon Wyllie died of Dhingra's sixth and seventh bullets.