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

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William and later Bengal Province, was a subdivision of the British Empire in India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and ...

on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1765 to 1947. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the

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, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company but was also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of

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List of Advocates-General of Bengal

;East India Company *Sir John Day 1780– *Thomas Henry Davies 1786–?1792 * Sir William Burroughs, Bt 1792–1801 *Edward Strettell ?1803–c.1816 * Robert Cutlar Fergusson (acting) c.1817 *

Robert Spankie Robert Spankie (17 April 1774 – 2 November 1842) was a Scottish-born journalist, barrister and politician who spent most of his career and life in England and India. Born in Falkland, Fife, he was the son of a Church of Scotland Minister. He ...

1817–?1823 * Robert Cutlar Fergusson 1823– * John Pearson 1824–1840 *(Sir)

Lawrence Peel Sir Lawrence Peel (10 August 1799 – 1884) was a judge in India, Chief Justice of Bengal. Lawrence Peel was third son of Joseph Peel of Bowes Farm, Middlesex, who died in 1821, and Anne, second daughter of Jonathan Haworth of Harcroft, Lancashir ...

1840–1842 (afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal, 1842) *

John Edwardes Lyall John Edwardes Lyall (1811 – 6 December 1845) was a British lawyer who was Advocate-General of Bengal. He was born the eldest son of George Lyall, Member of Parliament for the City of London and was educated at Eton College. His brother was Geo ...

1842–?1845 (died of cholera, 1845) *Sir

James William Colvile Sir James William Colvile (12 January 1810 – 6 December 1880) was a British lawyer, civil servant and then judge in India, and a judge on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the British colonies. Life He ...

1845–1848 (later Chief Justice of Bengal, 1855) * William Ritchie 1855–1861 ;Government of the United Kingdom *Thomas Hardwick Cowie 1862–1870 *Joseph Graham 1870–1873 *Sir Gregory Charles Paul 1873–1899 **Frederick Joseph Patton 1878 (acting) **Sir Gruffydd Humphrey Pugh Evans 1895 (acting) *James Tisdall Woodroffe 1899–1904 *

Lewis Pugh Pugh Lewis Pugh Evans Pugh (born Lewis Pugh Evans: 3 August 1837 – 6 January 1908) was a Welsh lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Pugh was the son of John Evans of Lovesgrove Cardiganshire and his ...

1900– *Peter O'Kinealy 1904– * Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1908–1909 *George Harry Blair Kenrick 1909–1916 * Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1916 *Thomas Clark Pilling Gibbons 1917–1923 *

Satish Ranjan Das Satish Ranjan Das (1870–1928) was the Advocate-General of Bengal and later the Law Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy; he was sometime treasurer of the Boy Scouts of Bengal and the Lodge of Good Fellowship, and a prominent memb ...

1922– *Sir Brojendra Lai Mitter 1925–1928 * Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar 1928–1934 *Sir Asoka Kumar Roy 1934–1943 *Sudhansu Mohan Bose c.1946

References

{{Attorneys General of British overseas territories

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

1780 establishments in the British Empire