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Black and white close-up portrait of a man wearing round glasses and a light-colored shawl with a patterned border.

Subhas Chandra Bose 1930s

16 Herbert Street, Cambridge

History of 16 Herbert Street

1913

William Anable


Subhas Chandra Bose is known to have stayed at this address. He had been a student at Fitzwilliam House. In the 1921 census he is resident in Lancashire. he resigned from the Indi Civil Service on 22nd April 1921 and returned to India. [Other sources suggest that Bose stayed at 5 Herbert Street but the letter seems to demonstrate that he lived at no.16].

A document showing a handwritten letter dated 22 April 1921 from Subhas Chandra Bose, with a circular stamp at the bottom left.

Bose letter of resignation

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