A Nawab was an extremely wealthy , high status governor or nobleman of the Mogul Empire in India and the term was used in the form Nabob to describe the eighteenth century British who returned home from the sub-continent having made a fortune. They liked to display their wealth and would promenade along Jermyn Street( now famous for shirts) parallel with Piccadilly dressed in Indian style dress and covered in jewelery.
While there is no statue of a Nabob in Jermyn Street today it is fitting that there is one of that dandy and leader of 18th/19th century fashion George Bryan 'Beau' Brumell.
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