He then attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he spent three years earning an honours degree in natural science. In 1905 he went to Harrow, a leading English school, where he stayed for two years. Nehru was educated at home by a series of English governesses and tutors until the age of 16. His sister Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, later became the first female president of the United Nations General Assembly. His youngest sister, Krishna Hutheesing, became a noted writer and authored several books on her brother. Jawaharlal Nehru has two sisters and a brother. His mother was Swarup Rani Thussu who was also part of a well-known Kashmiri Pandit family. His father was Motilal Nehru, a renowned lawyer, and leader of the Indian independence movement. He was born into a family of Kashmiri Pandits, who had migrated to Delhi early in the 18 th century. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allabahad on November 14, 1889.
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