The Advocate-General of Bombay was charged with advising the Government of the British administered

Bombay Presidency The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainl ...

on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1668 to 1947. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the

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 Southea ...

, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company and also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain. He was an ''ex-officio'' member of the Legislative Council.

List of Advocates-General of Bombay

;East India Company *Ollyett Woodhouse 1820–1822 *George Norton 1827–1828 (afterwards

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, t ...

, 1828) *Richard Orlando Bridgeman 1828 (died in office of cholera) *James Dewar (acting) 1828– *Augustus Smith LeMesurier 1833–1856 *Sir

Michael Roberts Westropp Sir Michael Roberts Westropp (29 June 1817 – 14 January 1890) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and former Advocate General of the Supreme Court, Bombay Presidency. Early life Westropp was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was the son o ...

1856–1857 ;British Raj *Arthur James Lewis 1857–1865 (died in office) *Sir Michael Roberts Westropp 1861–1862 * Lyttleton Holyoake Bayley 17 Mar 1866–1869 *James Sewell White 1869– *Sir Andrew Richard Scoble 1872–1877 *John Marriott 1877–1884 *Francis Law Latham 1884–1893 *Basil Lang 1893–1902 *

Basil Scott Sir Basil Scott (1859 - 1926) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Early life Sir Basil Scott was the son of Henry Scott educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He passed B.A. in 1882 and M.A. in 1886. He was called to Bar Inner Temple ...

4 Feb 1902– *(Sir)

Pherozeshah Mehta Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay ...

1908– * Thomas Joseph Strangman 1908–1915 * Malcolm Robert Jardine 1915–1916 * Thomas Joseph Strangman 1916–1922 *Sir Jamshedjee Kanga 1922–1935 **Bhulabhai Desai Mar 1926 (acting) *Sir Kenneth McIntyre Kemp 1935– *Noshirwanji Engineer 1942–1945 (afterwards Advocate-General of India, 1945)

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Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

1820 establishments in the British Empire

List of Advocates-General of Bombay

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