Diwan Bahadur Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar (January 1844 – 18 November 1908) was an eminent

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and

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who served as the first Indian Advocate-General of

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and also as a Judge of the Madras High Court.

Posts held

Bhashyam Aiyangar served as the Acting Advocate General of Madras from February 1897 to March 1898 and September 1899 to March 1900. India Office List 1905, Pg 439 He was the first Indian to hold the post. In February, 1897, Bhashyam Aiyangar was nominated to the

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as an official member He was nominated for two more terms in November 1899 and March 1900. India Office List 1905, Pg 75 In July 1901 Bhashyam Aiyangar was appointed a Judge of the High Court at Madras, in which position he served until 1904.

Honours

Bhashyam Aiyangar was created a

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in May 1895. He was

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on 5 February 1900, after a knighthood had been announced in the 1900 New Year Honours list. A statute of Bhashyam Aiyangar was donated by M. S. Nagappa in 1927 and has been installed in the Madras High Court campus, just outside the Madras Bar Association entrance.

Personal life

Bhashyam Aiyangar had a number of daughters. His third daughter was married to eminent lawyer and freedom fighter

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, Pg 11 The Indian independence activist

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is his granddaughter. Actor

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is a descendant of Aiyangar.

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