Charles Le Gai Eaton
Charles Le Gai Eaton (1921-2010) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and raised agnostic.
Educated at Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, he worked as a teacher and journalist in Jamaica and Egypt before joining the British Diplomatic Service.
Converting to Islam in 1951, he became Hasan le Gai Eaton and served as consultant to London's Islamic Cultural Centre.
He helped draft the Muslim Council of Britain's constitution in 1996.
His influential books, including Islam and the Destiny of Man, King of the Castle, and Remembering God, inspired numerous Western converts and introduced Islamic thought to secular audiences.
He advocated for a distinctly British Islamic identity.
