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Chirag Din Chohan
A hakim and eye specialist who practised alternative medicine in Harrogate and Middlesbrough
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Chirag Din Chohan was a hakim (or practitioner of alternative medicine) and eye specialist. He first settled in Harrogate in 1922. In 1925 he moved to Middlesbrough with his English wife, Florence, a nurse, to care for Florence's sick sister. Chohan and Florence had three children, born in 1927, 1929 and 1937. He was also married to two women in Pakistan.
In 1933 Chohan opened his first practice in Kensington Road, Middlesbrough and, in 1937 a second practice in nearby Linthorpe Road. He owned several properties in Middlesbrough and a home in Harrogate. His successful businesses as well as his extensive property portfolio enabled him to purchase a Rolls-Royce during the early 1930s.
Chohan was one of several family members who had come to England since the 1890s to work as herbalists.
Ghulam Sarwar Khan Chohan (cousin), Nafees Chohan (cousin's wife).
Hussain, Khadim, Going for a Curry: A Social and Culinary History (Middlesbrough: Ek Zuban Press, 2006)
Media Cultured, 'The Chohan Family: East to North East', https://mediacultured.org/the-east-to-north-east-exhibition/
C900/01572, Bari Chohan interviewed by Neil Gardner (1999), Millennium Memory Bank, British Library, St Pancras
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
