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Advocate-General Of Madras
The Advocate-General of Madras was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Madras Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1652 to 1950. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company and also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain and an ''ex-officio'' member of the Madras Legislative Council. List of Advocates-General Madras Presidency *Alexander Anstruther 1803–?1812 *Sir Samuel Toller 1812–1821 * Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton 1822–1828 *George Norton 1828–>1839 *W. Bathie 1833–1834 (acting) * Thomas Sydney Smith 1861–1863 * John Bruce Norton 1863–1868 * John Dawson Mayne 1868–1872 (acting) *Henry Stewart Cunningham 1872–1877 *Patrick O'Sullivan 1877–1882 * Hale Horatio Shephard 1885–1887 * James Spring Branson 1887–1897 * V. Bhashyam Aiyangar 1897–1898 (acting) * Charles Arnold White 1898–1899 (after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra state and some parts of Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha and the union territory of Lakshadweep. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the Presidency and Ootacamund or Ooty, the summer capital. The coastal regions and northern part of Island of Ceylon at that time was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a Crown colony. Madras Presidency was neighboured by the Kingdom of Mysore on the northwest, Kingdom of Cochin on the southwest, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the north. Some parts of the presidency were also flanked by Bombay Presidency ( Konkan) and Central Provinces and Berar (Madhya Pradesh). In 1639, the English East India Company purchased the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale Horatio Shephard
Sir Horatio Hale Shephard (1842 – 19 April 1921) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in 1885 and acted as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898. Early and family life Horatio Hale Shephard was the son of John Shephard and Harriett Strachey Harper Shephard. Harriett Harper Shephard was a daughter of Tristram Harper and Mary Jellicoe Harper, sister of Henry John Chitty Harper, and a great-great-granddaughter of John Strachey. Horatio H. Shephard educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1867. Career Shephard entered the India service as a barrister at the India Office in 1867. He was appointed Professor of law at the Presidency College, Madras in October 1873 and in 1881, was made a fellow of the Madras University. In March 1885, he was appointed Advocate General of the Madras Presidency and thereby a member of the Madras Legislative Council. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Narayan
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Vijay may refer to: People *Vijay (name) *Vijay (actor) (born 1974), an Indian Tamil actor *Vijay (director), Kannada film director Fiction * ''Vijay'' (1942 film), a 1942 Indian Hindi film * ''Vijay'' (1988 film), a 1988 Indian Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra * ''Vijay'' (1989 film), a 1989 Indian Telugu film directed by B. Gopal * ''Vijay'' (TV series), an NDTV Imagine television series Military operations *Operation Vijay (1961) *Operation Vijay (1999) See also *VJ (other) *Veejay (other) Veejay may refer to: * VJ (media personality), a television announcer who introduces music videos * Veejay (software), a video instrument mixer and sampler for real-time performances * Vee-Jay Records, an American record label See also * VJ (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govind Swaminadhan
Govind Swaminadhan (9 October 1909 – 30 September 2003) was an Indian lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu from 1969 to 1976. He also served as president of the Madras Bar Association. Early life and education Govind was born on 9 October 1909 to lawyer Subbarama Swaminathan, an Iyer Brahmin, and his Nair wife Ammu Swaminathan. He was the oldest of four siblings, the others being Lakshmi Sehgal (1914-2012, Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) and Subbaram Swaminadhan . He had his education at Madras and Oxford and qualified as a barrister from the Inner Temple in 1935. Career Govind practised at the Madras High Court serving as Crown Prosecutor and later as Standing Counsel for the Government of India. One of his important trials as Crown Prosecutor was the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case. In 1969, Govind was appointed Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu during the tenure of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohan Kumaramangalam
Surendra Mohan Kumaramangalam ( ta, சுரேந்திர மோகன் குமாரமங்கலம்) (1 November 1916 — 30 May 1973) was an Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Communist Party of India, and later, the Indian National Congress.He also served as Advocate-General for Madras State from 1966 to 1967. Kumaramangalam was killed in the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 on May 31 1973 at the age of 56. Early life and education Mohan Kumaramangalam was born in London to P. Subbarayan, then ''zamindar'' of Kumaramangalam in Thiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal district and later, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency and his wife, Radhabai Subbarayan on 1 November 1916. He was their third and youngest son, Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam and Gopal Kumaramangalam being elder to him. Kumaramangalam was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, serving as President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1938. During his perio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Dewan Bahadur Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer (14 May 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was responsible for framing the Constitution of India. He also served as the advocate general of Madras State from 1929 to 1944. Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is his grandson. Alladi Ramakrishnan, an Indian physicist and the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences was his son. Early life Krishnaswamy Iyer was born in 1883 to a Tamil family in the small village of Pudur in Madras State (present day Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh). His father, Ekamra Sastry, was a priest. Krishnaswamy passed his matriculation examination in 1899 and joined the Madras Christian College to study history. He used his spare time to attend classes in law and passed the B.L. exam and became one of the leading members of the bar. He was made a Dewan Bahadur in 1930 and was knighted in the 1932 New Year Honours list. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Court Of Madras
The Madras High Court is a High Courts of India, High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Bombay High Court in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of three high courts of colonial India established in the three Presidency Towns of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, dated 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai, as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction, civil and criminal, under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres, the court complex is one of the largest in the world, second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The High Court consists of 74 judges and a chief justice. History From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Spring Branson
James Henry Spring Branson (11 June 1842 – 8 April 1897) was an officer of the Indian volunteer force and a lawyer, who was the acting Advocate General of the Madras Presidency. Career Spring Branson was commissioned into the Indian volunteer force and served with the Madras Artillery Volunteers. As Commandant, his decision to allow "native gentlemen" to serve with the regiment almost caused a revolt amongst the white soldiers.Mrinalini Sinha, ''Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and The' Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century'' (Manchester University Press, 1995), 83. The Madras Government hastily rescinded Spring Branson's order and continued to enforce the ban on "native" volunteers. He resigned from the army as a lieutenant-colonel a few years later in order to practice as a lawyer. He was appointed first, Crown Prosecutor and then, Public-Prosecutor, Madras, 4 July 1885. In March 1887, he was appointed acting Advocate-General of Madras Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick O'Sullivan (lawyer)
Patrick O' Sullivan (20 January 1835 – 25 February 1887) was a British lawyer of Irish origin who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency and ex-officio member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1877 to 1882. He studied law at Gray's Inn and was called to the bar in 1864. He married Sidney Jane Moore in India. They had only one son, Arthur, a British Army officer who played a leading role in the 1914 Christmas truce ckb: ئاگربەستی کریسماس The Christmas truce (german: Weihnachtsfrieden; french: Trêve de Noël; nl, Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christ .... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:OSullivan, Patrick 1835 births 1887 deaths Members of Gray's Inn Members of the Madras Legislative Council Advocates General for Tamil Nadu 19th-century British lawyers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world. The EIC had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three Presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British army at the time. The operations of the company had a profound effect on the global balance of trade, almost single-handedly reversing the trend of eastward drain of Western bullion, seen since Roman times. Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John D
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bruce Norton
John Bruce Norton (8 July 1815 – 13 July 1883) was a British barrister and educationist who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency. He was the father of the barrister and Indian independence activist Eardley Norton. Early life John Bruce Norton was born in London in 1815, a son of the British soldier and lawyer John David Norton (1787–1843) who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Madras in 1841–42. John Bruce Norton was educated at Harrow and Merton College, Oxford, then in 1841 enrolled at Lincoln's Inn to read for the bar. Norton was an avid cricketer and played in the Harrow School Cricket Eleven during the 1832–33 season.Mr. Eardley Norton" (obituary), ''The Times'' ondon 16 July 1931: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 Apr. 2014 Career In 1842 Norton moved with his father to India and commenced a legal practice in Madras. He was appointed Sheriff of Madras in 1843, serving until 1845, in which year he was appointed as Government Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
