Mr Dwarka Nath Kapur was born in 1910 and worked as a clerk in the railways in India. He grew up in Lahore, which was then part of India, and is now in Pakistan, along with his wife, Phulan Rani Kapur, who was born in 1920. At the time of partition and the independence of India in 1947, he went with his wife and three children to New Delhi where he worked for a few years before coming by ship to the UK in 1952. 

A fourth child was born in Delhi in 1949. He was invited to come to the UK by his nephew, Sat Pal (‘Paul’) Kapur, who had already been there a few years and had set up a clothing business. Dwarka Nath Kapur and his family first settled with his nephew in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, and then after 1-2 years he settled with his wife and four children in Ballycastle, a small down on the north-east coast of Northern Ireland. His wife, Phulan Rani Kapur, had two more children and all six of the children grew up in Ballycastle, and went to school there. Five of them went on to get degrees at Queen’s University Belfast. Dwarka Nath Kapur died on April 14, 1993, and Phulan Rani Kapur died on December 23, 1996.